[OT] Turn off translucent Mac Menu bar

[J. Landman Gay]

Chipp Walters wrote:
> The latest version of MacOS includes a translucent menu bar at the top. I
> finally figured out how to get it back to a solid color:
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071115135215262

In the latest Leopard update, it's just a Preferences checkbox in the 
Desktop pane. You don't need to use Terminal.

> Any idea on how to turn off the blurring in the menus? They are much more
> difficult to read with all the blurring in them. I would have expected Apple
> to test this.

One thing that may have happened (it took me forever to figure this out) 
is that certain keystrokes will trigger the system magnification 
feature. I accidentally did that once, and everything was blurred. 
Holding down the Command key and scrolling your mousewheel will do it. 
In my case, it got stuck with a 1-pixel magnification which made 
everything look almost okay but all the text was slightly off. Once I 
finally figured out the cause, all I had to do was Cmd-scroll and it 
went away.

You can turn off this feature in Prefs, but now that I know what caused 
the problem, I have started to use it for some things and I've left it on.

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