<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Eric,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This a Mac setting, not a Chimera setting per se. Open System Preferences and go to the Accessibility category. In the Display section (and under the "Display" tab), turn on "Reduce transparency".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Eric<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 26, 2021, at 4:15 AM, Eric Werner <<a href="mailto:evwerner@gmail.com" class="">evwerner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Hi Eric,</p><p class="">Thank you for the info. You have great software. You are right I
can see the menu with the in-window version. However, because the
menu background it somewhat transparent it makes it more difficult
to read. Granted I am a bit visually impaired. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Is there a way to make the menu background nontransparent? <br class="">
</p><p class="">Thanks for your time and help. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Eric<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/21 6:25 PM, Eric Pettersen
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Hi Eric,
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This
is a current limitation of the Tk windowing toolkit that Chimera
uses. Perhaps future versions of the toolkit will fix this, but
for now that's the way it is. Your two options are:</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1) Don't
use dark mode when using Chimera. That might be a pain.</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2) Use
the in-window version of the menus rather than the ones at the
top of the screen. The in-window menus don't suffer from this
problem.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There
is also sort of a third option: use our new program ChimeraX.
It doesn't suffer from this problem.</div>
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<div class="">--Eric</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eric
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Computer Graphics Lab</div>
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<div class="">On May 25, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Hi,<br class="">
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Chimera is great. However in the latest download
for the Mac, I can no longer see the menus when
in Dark Mode on my Macbook Pro using Mojave.<br class="">
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In the attached file you can see the the
transparent background of the menu drop down
list makes it even harder.<br class="">
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Is there a solution to adjust the menu text and
background color and making the menu background
opaque?<br class="">
<br class="">
Thank you for your help.<br class="">
<br class="">
Eric<br class="">
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