
However, there’s one thing about this we didn’t like: Once you’ve done so, the menu bar is very white, and it looks very plain. Turns out you just have to set a certain environment variable to get rid of the translucent menu bar. As some of you may know, we had even created our own little application for achieving the same thing a few months ago, but the method it employed didn’t work in the final, official Leopard. While a lot of Leopard users will probably not even see the point in this, we are very happy to finally have a solution for one of our pet peeves with the Leopard.
#DISPLAPERTURE MAC OS X#
Yesterday, Steve Miner published a method to make the menu bar in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” opaque, non-translucent or non-transparent - whatever you prefer to call it. Posted in Displaperture, Key Codes, Menu Bar Tint, Open-With Manager | Comments Off on Making Room (Open-With Manager 0.9.2) Just make sure you’ve read the warning at the bottom of the product page before using it. So if you’re interested in a utility that lets you edit the list of file types a given application thinks it can open (which, in turn, influences the Finder’s “Open with” context menu and the application’s drag & drop behavior in the Dock), check it out. What are these baubleries? Key Codes has always been accessible from our homepage, and we’ve blogged about Displaperture and the more or less obsolete Menu Bar Tint a few times.īut you may have never heard about Open-With Manager before - despite the fact that this little critter is roughly three years old. So we’re changing it, and in doing so, we’re taking the opportunity to give easier access to some minor projects, which we call baubleries. While preparing for the release of an entirely new application next week, we realized that this site’s current homepage layout had reached its limits. Posted in Butler, Desktop Curtain, Displaperture, Key Codes, Keymo, Leech, Menu Bar Tint, Moom, Name Mangler, Open-With Manager, Products, Safari Guardian, Service Scrubber, Time Sink, Usher, Witch | 30 Comments »
#DISPLAPERTURE UPDATE#
With today’s release of Lion, here’s an update on the status of all our apps in Apple’s latest Mac OS X release.
