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Daddy D Author

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Can I make the menu bar opaque in Big Sur?

Just upgraded to Big Sur on a MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020). Many of the changes are okay with me. A fair number are not useful to me given that I mostly write and surf.

But I find the translucent menu bar mega-annoying. I found the following Terminal commands from 2007:

sudo defaults write

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 1

Will that work in Big Sur as well?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 12:21 AM

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Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 12:29 AM

Easier:

SystemPreferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce Transparency

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