[Tom Campbell]

Anyone know if i can make the launch bar at the top of the screen transparent? i have seen it do it by itself while shutting down (not sure if it does it every time) and so i was wondering the way to do this?
Thanks

PS was this the correct forum to ask this in?

[Nebagakid]

Well, the menu bar at the top does not goes transparent except if the theme has some transparent images for it (which none do I believe)

the only reason it does that at shutdown and restart times is because the system does not want to fool around with it anymore, and it is saying "I am going bye-bye, we are done, no more menu bar or mouse cursor."

So, i guess the final answer is, not really

[Tom Campbell]

haha thanks i just saw someone had posted the same question further down the page. i did a search so sorry for that...
would this be hard to change? i believe lots of people would want this and somebody has the skills... oh well thanks again and if anyone has something to add, great!

[smeger]

This question seems to come up periodically, and as far as I know, nobody has ever figured out a straight-up "yes" answer. You can take a shot at creating your own theme using the instructions here. You'll probably want to edit pxm# resources that have "root menu" in their name (you can use the filter in the toolbar to find these).

Good luck!

[Tom Campbell]

Thank you that is good stuff but Simply put, that stuff is way over my head at this time. I was hoping someone had already done the grunt work here, maybe even apple. thanks again and please if you have something to contribute please do...