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Written by Ron Bassett   
Thursday, 03 September 2009 17:41

I made it about 3 days before I was disgusted with the Blue glow, border, shadow or whatever you want to call it now found in Snow Leopard's (SL) Expose. Was really wishing they kept the look of the old Expose. I just can't believe they would pick such a horrific color with all the cool transparencies and growl looks found in Snow Leopard. The dock even has the very cool transparency. And there is no where in the System Preferences to remove or change it. Luckly I found a solution in the forums at MacThemes by dementian27.

So you can take that blue (puke).

blue-expose

To a very Mac looking Transparent Glow.

trans-expose



This can be done very easily by just replacing 2 files.

Download dementian27's transparent files Dementian27_expose_glow_replacements.zip

They are located at: System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app

(right click: show package contents)

Then Contents/Resources
The images to be changed are: expose-window-selection-big.png for normal windows and: expose-window-selection-small.png for minimized windows.

expose-image
Just replace: expose-window-selection-big.png and expose-window-selection-small.png with the ones in the zip.

Next log out and log in. Now the Exposé Glow should match the coolness of everything else about your Mac.

 
Comments (7)
expose glow
7 Monday, 21 December 2009 10:01
Steve Barrett
Great, many thanks for this
YES!!!
6 Sunday, 01 November 2009 17:46
mark
This is awesome!!! Worked perfectly. Still have no idea why Apple choose to do this. Of all the things to screw with they should've left this part alone. Now if only there was a way to revert back to the previous Expose' highlight. That would be awesome. Since updating to SL I've had more issues with Safari crashing, VMWare slowing me down (sometimes to a halt for over a minute) and LONG delays waiting for the print dialogue window to populate. Starting to feel like the upgrade wasn't worth it. Can only hope that Apple is looking into these issues. We're supposed to be the system with "no headaches". That's not the case anymore.
The blue glow is awful!
5 Sunday, 20 September 2009 07:52
Brynjarsson
Actually you don't have to bother with doing the Log out/Log in part. Just killall Dock in terminal
Thanks
4 Saturday, 12 September 2009 20:03
wood
Thanks Ron! This will come in handy next Thursday! lol I'm excited about it
Pretty much the same over at my blog
3 Friday, 04 September 2009 13:23
philafication
Hey, I found your blog doing research on fixing the blue glow in Snow Leopard's Expose. I made a little change to the file existing, because I kinda liked the glow, but simply that specific tone really ticked me off after a couple of days. Check it out if your problem is similar to mine: http://bit.ly/iK0ci
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2 Friday, 04 September 2009 01:06
Therese
Fantastic, thank you!
Exactly what i was looking for
1 Thursday, 03 September 2009 22:27
Drake
Cant believe apple did this

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