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Menu bar turning black in full-screen mode

Hello.

I am running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on an 11.3" MacBook Air (i7, 2012).

A few days ago the menu bar suddenly became black while in full-screen mode (as you can see in the screenshot attached below, a typical example of a Safari browsing session). This occurs for all applications.

This was unprompted, undesired, and has so far resisted all attempts at repair. It persists resolutely through reboots.

I welcome any plausible suggestions (which is to mean, anything that does not involve reinstalling the OS for such a minor niggle, which I suspect is a semirandom corruption somewhere).

Thanks to all.

//JJ

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 11.3", 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 4GB

Posted on May 8, 2013 1:29 AM

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Linc Davis

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Posted on May 10, 2013 8:15 AM

Next, back up all data.

Then enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as above (copy and paste):

defaults delete -g NSFullScreenDarkMenu

Log out and log back in. Test. If there's no change, repeat with this command:

defaults delete -g userMenuExtraStyle

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Linc Davis

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May 9, 2013 7:46 AM in response to qubex

In the Desktop preference pane, there's a setting to make the menu bar transparent. Does changing that setting have any effect?

qubex Author

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May 9, 2013 8:04 AM in response to Linc Davis

As I've already written: no, fiddling with the Transparecny setting has not fixed the problem.

Linc Davis

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May 9, 2013 8:20 AM in response to qubex

The menu bar doesn't normally appear at all in full-screen mode unless you move the cursor to the top of the screen. Is that what you're doing, or does it show all the time?