menubar messes up with shapeshifter 2.1

#1 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 19:03 MacNN

im not sure if this problem is related to shapeshifter or the milk theme... but everytime i apply it, it works fine, and all of a sudden later the menu bar where all the date/time, and icons are on the top left defaults back to aqua, while the rest of the bar stays themed... is this a bug in the milk theme or is it a shapeshifter theme? this happens on my powerbook also... and my friend also has the same problem... any ideas?

#2 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 22:59 MacNN

Did you log out after applying the theme? Are you using a 10.4 theme on 10.3.9?

#3 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 23:06 MacNN

im using tiger 10.4.1, and using max rudebergs milk theme for tiger...

yes i logged off and on many times and even restarted my machine...

#4 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 - 00:59 MacNN

Next time it happens, take a look at /Applications/Utilities/Console and see whether anything interesting was logged at the very bottom of the Console listing. Anything about ShapeShifter or SystemUIServer or any menu extra would be "interesting".

#5 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 - 01:30 MacNN

I find that rebooting makes Shapeshifter work mo betta.

#6 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 - 03:44 MacNN

i did a search in the console searchfield and typed shapeshifter and this is what it found:

SystemUIServer[234]: [Haxies Crash Guard] Looks like this application has crashed before, not loading haxie com.unsanity.shapeshifter for it.

This only happens when i reboot, i mean it changes the theme fine, but ater the menu extras load, it defaults back to aqua (just the menu extras part of the finder bar)

everything else is intact, i have to reapply the theme in order to fix it temporarily until my next reboot... not sure why this is happening, i repaired permissions already... dunno what else it can be...

#7 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 - 11:31 MacNN

Something is making your SystemUIServer (the process that controls the menu extras) crash. It probably happens regardless of whether ShapeShifter is applied, but you don't notice it if it isn't. Historically, this tends to be 3rd party menu extras that use "MenuCracker" to get into the SystemUIServer.

Email me. My name is Jason, and it's at the company that makes ShapeShifter.