How to disable the top menu blinking when a keyboard shortcut is used in Mac OS X
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Blueis the problem, and a darker greyishGraphitewould do the job for you and won't irritate you as much, you go toSystem Preferences, click onGeneral, and change the appearance fromBluetoGraphite. It's more towards the defaultGreyyou want, but a little darker. Attaching a screenshot of the same.In System Preferences
- How it actually looks
If this is not what you want, and disabling it or making it a transparent highlight is what your looking for, then you might have to wait till ShapeShifter is made compatible for OSX Lion.
Or you can hack OSX by going to this path and figuring out how to manipulate the XML in this folder:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/. Since these files help us edit the menu options, there has to be an option to enhance the highlighting on the MenuBar also.You will need Xcode to do this ofcourse, but at your own risk!
I figured out how to change the background graphic on Mountain Lion, but it also removes the highlight when menus are clicked manually. And I don't know how to change the text color.
- Compile sartFileTool or download a complied binary
cp /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/SArtFile.bin ~/Desktop/original.binsartFileTool -d ~/Desktop/original.bin ~/Desktop/art- Make 49-1.png (or 49-2.png for HiDPI modes) transparent
sartFileTool -e ~/Desktop/art ~/Desktop/new.binsudo cp ~/Desktop/new.bin /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Resources/SArtFile.bin- Open a new application or reopen some application
A few graphics were also drawn incorrectly after I replaced the SArtFile.bin.
Adding a key for NSMenuItemHighlightColor to .GlobalPreferences.plist didn't work. I tried changing some attributes in Extras2.rsrc with ThemePark 3.1, but it didn't seem to have any effect either.
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