Comments on: Tip: Make Your Hidden Applications Translucent

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By: guest

guest — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:00:09 +0000

I swear I haven’t installed any software that controls this sort of behaviour. Below is an image of both Terminal and Safari hidden via cmd+h.

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9637/hiddenwf0.png

As far as I was aware, it’s always done this, including in Tiger. (My girlfriend’s Macbook was Tiger too – I didn’t set it up, and it does the same thing. After her upgrade to Leopard, it does as well. Same for my dad’s macbook.)

By: Lucky

Lucky — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:14:14 +0000

Something else in MacPilot:

Release Notes (version 2.4.5; released on: 2007-11-19)

* New Feature: !!! Make the Leopard menubar opaque (remove transparency)!

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:27:02 +0000

hidden applications are NOT translucent by default. but, yes, tinkertool (freeware) can enable this, as well as onyx (freeware), and the reason they both can is because os x can actually do it by default:

you can do this without any extra program in the terminal.

see, e.g.:
http://osxdaily.com/2007/05/17/make-hidden-applications-transparent-in-the-dock/

By: Jacob Schulman

Jacob Schulman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:21:08 +0000

@guest: I don’t know what version of OS X you’re using but on my fresh install of Leopard, none of the hidden applications showed translucency by default.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:12:58 +0000

(hidden icons are translucent *by default*)

By: guest

guest — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:12:17 +0000

…or you can just look at which icons in the dock are translucent…

By: Delta

Delta — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:01:17 +0000

Or you can use the free TinkerTool.