thedave Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Hello! I'm having some transparency issues (there is no transparency) on MacOS 10.14, Alfred v3.7 [938]. I removed and reinstalled Alfred, to no avail. The transparency issues exist at a clean install, before I sync my settings folder. Quick system report: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac15,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 4 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 32 GB Chipset Model: AMD Radeon R9 M290X Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Thanks! Link to comment
Andrew Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 @thedave Is this happening with every Alfred theme, or just specific ones? If it's just a specific one, could you share this with me to take a look? Link to comment
thedave Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 (edited) Hi @Andrew , It's happening for all themes. Thanks! Edited October 5, 2018 by thedave Link to comment
niceSprite Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 @Andrew Hi, I had the same problem. I don't know exactly when my Alfred lost transparency, but it must be related to some of my preference changes. After changing to a new created macOS user account, I open Alfred and found the transparency is normal. Can Alfred team locate the problem and fix it? Maybe I need to change to a new macOS user to make my Alfred appearance normal. Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 16 GB Link to comment
thedave Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 (edited) SOLVED! Thanks to @niceSprite for the pointer. I was able to recreate a new macOS account having transparency, so I started going through my list of customizations on my main account. It was a defaults issue with the key "NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance". When I upgraded to Mojave, I lost the option to have a dark menu bar with light windows. I tried dark mode and didn't love it, and followed this article to get back my pre-Mojave menu bar color: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/only-dark-menu-bar-dock-mojave/ So I did defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes It wasn't perfect, so I reverted back with defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No That caused the issue. I re-read the article and found I should have deleted the key entirely. So I gave this a go: defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance After logging out and logging back in, transparency was back in Alfred. I don't know what this actually did that messed with Alfred's transparency specifically, but this was a resolution for me. Hopefully it will work for @niceSprite as well and we can call this resolved. Cheers! Edited November 15, 2018 by thedave Grammar deanishe 1 Link to comment
deanishe Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Great work, @thedave. Thanks very much for posting such a clear description of the cause of and solution to the issue. It will doubtless be very helpful to other folks. thedave 1 Link to comment
niceSprite Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Thank you for saving my time! I did change this preference for get dark menu bar in light mode. Then I decided to use default, but the article guided me use command defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No to undo the preference, and thus cause the problem. thedave 1 Link to comment
thedave Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 @deanishe I saw Alfred 3.8 has listed in the change log "Work around macOS 10.14 transparency issues" - is that this issue? Thanks! Link to comment
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