Oddly without undoing the hack the toggle on menu bar transparency DOES do something, just not what you'd expect. It toggles it from a greyish color to pure white. Here's 2 screenshots: http://skitch.com/nosillacast/gegj/desktop http://skitch.com/nosillacast/gegk/desktop on the white background of Skitch it's actually hard to see the menu bar at all. I also tested to see if a logout/in would reset after the command line, but you do need to do the full reboot as you and John said. Not that I ever doubted you...