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Apple is very much attention to the elaboration of design and interface elements, making them suitable for the vast majority of users. And for the same reason, we are given little opportunity for their customization. The default menu bar has a silver color, combined with the case of Macs, you can make it transparent by putting the appropriate checkbox in the settings, but change its color, such as black - It does not. Regular means. Although as you know, if you really want, you can resort to the help of third party tools and achieve the desired effect.
How do obsidanovuyu menu bar, I'll tell you in this article.
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For such a simple, but effective fashion, we need a tool ObsidianMenuBarWhich can be downloaded from the developer. It is free and very easy to setup.
How to darken the menu bar
1. and run Install Obsidian Menu Bar.app folder downloaded from the link above. This script will make the black menu bar, and the text and application icons gray in it.
2. Now go to the system settings menu (or dock) and open the section
Desktop & Screen Saver. Here we need to disable the option Translucent menu bar (If you used it).
3. By default, the clock, the battery meter and other elements of the menu bar are displayed in black and merge with our dark bar. In order to "whiten" their need to copy the file WhiteUIServer.menu in the same folder on your hard drive and run it.
4. [Optional] The developer recommends that you disable the option If possible, use anti-aliasing ...That is in the system settings, in the bottom section main.
5. To make all changes take effect, you need to End a user session and enter again.
Immediately after that, you will see the change - the status bar will become darker and more attractive (a matter of taste of course). He looks pretty good like in the Finder, and in third-party applications (especially those where it is possible to change the design theme of the black).
Fly in the ointment in our customization is still there, but it all depends on your application set. Most applications use black fonts / icons and of course, they will merge with our menu bar that makes unreadable. Some application developers to adapt, but not all.
The author recommends that fashion hide "ugly" Bartender'om icons in it additional line remains gray and all the indispensable icons will be visible.
How to whiten the menu bar
To return the menu, an aluminum row back, we need to:
1. run Restore Default Menu Bar.app of the loaded folder Obsibian Menu Bar, and confirm the action of the user password.
2. send files WhiteUIServer.menu into shopping cart (from the folder where you have it skopirovli during installation).
3. Finish the user's session and zaloginivaemsya the new - everything will return to its previous form.
If you use a transparent menu bar, go to settings and turn on it again.
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Good or bad, such customization everyone decides for himself. The whole point in tastes and argue about it useless. Granted, this mod is not perfect, in the sense that it does not replace some icons, but there is as lucky. At least, there is no harm there because the developer has provided correct its removal and hassle-free return to the pristine form. I recommend all the same to try and unsubscribe in the comments how it went.
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