Alex Speech Tricks Magnify the dock on command
Nov 17

Then here’s a fix that will take you to Tiger days of yore.

Type the following line in to Terminal (all together on one line- perhaps copy into Textedit to ensure it is before you paste) and press return:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer
‘EnvironmentVariables’ -dict ‘CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE’ 0.63

You’ll nee to restart to see the effect.
And to get rid of it once you realise that new is nice (!)  do the same, but type this line in Terminal instead, again all on one line:

sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer
‘EnvironmentVariables’

Be careful though, this is powerful stuff!

written by WhizzKid

2 Responses to “So you hate the translucent menu bar?”

  1. larzon Says:

    doesn’t work for me…?! I’m on german leopard. maybe thats the problem? duno^^
    would love to have the round menubar back :)

  2. Recuerdo Says:

    It doesn’t round off the menu bar - it just creates a white background for it.

    I got it to work, but when trying to revert back to the translucent style OS X wouldn’t boot after re-starting. Any help?

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