Geek Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dark-menu-bar-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="Dark menu bar for Mac OS X" title="dark-menu-bar-mac-os-x" width="604" height="129" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21536" /></p> <p>If you’ve been using Nocturne to get the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/25/black-menu-bar-mac/">black menubar</a> in Mac OS X but don’t care for any of the features outside of the darker menu bar, check out MenuBarFilter. All it does is turn the Mac menu bar color into a dark black gradient, closely resembling iOS.</p> <p><a href="http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/MenuBarFilter.zip">Download MenubarFilter now</a> or head to the <a href="http://eece.github.com/MenuBarFilter/">github page</a>.</p> <p>MenuBarFilter is extremely lightweight, just uncompress the app and double-click on the Panda icon to turn your menubar black. There are no configuration choices or menu items, so if you want to quit the app you’ll have to find it in Activity Monitor and kill the process, or type this into the Terminal:</p> <p><code>killall Finder</code></p> <p>Why would you want to stop running this gorgeous little add-on? Bugs of course. MenuBarFilter certainly works in Lion but it doesn’t play that well with Mission Control or full-screen apps, and you’ll see some display artifacts and mismatched colors here and there. I’ve been using it since last night and as long as you don’t expect a perfect fit quite yet, MenuBarFilter is a very nice looking <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/customize/">customization</a> to Mac OS X.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/black-menu-mac.jpg" alt="dark menu bar in Mac OS X" title="black-menu-mac" width="459" height="313" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21535" /></p> <p>Speaking of bugs, if you’re crafty and want to try and troubleshoot the display oddities yourself, you can grab the source code through git with:</p> <p><code>git clone git://github.com/eece/MenuBarFilter</code></p> <p><em>Thanks to TJ for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/25/black-menu-bar-mac/#comment-241899">the heads up in our comments</a></em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nq_oBgclW61uX0UfsvPp8a38hFA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nq_oBgclW61uX0UfsvPp8a38hFA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nq_oBgclW61uX0UfsvPp8a38hFA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Nq_oBgclW61uX0UfsvPp8a38hFA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=BHql_Qw1BgM:5iuHAXWMbpo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/BHql_Qw1BgM" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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