A number of menu bar applications from PTH Consulting no longer display their menus in 10.3.x Panther. There is no official fix, as the company has joined with You Software and many beloved PTH apps are now unavailable for download. The unofficial instructions were also removed from the web site. Thanks to members of the X4U Mac OS X email list for digging this up!
The PTH Menu Bar applications do not work properly under Mac OS X 10.3. Specifically, the menus aren't being shown in the Menu Bar when the application is selected. There are two ways around this problem. The first option is to edit the Info.plist file in the application wrapper and remove two lines. This will cause the application to show up on the Dock, and will also cause their menus to display properly. To do this, follow these steps:
- Select the app in the Finder
- Control click on the app and select Show Package Contents
- Double click on the Contents folder
- Control click on the "Info.plist" file and use the "Open With" command to open using TextEdit
- Remove the following two lines:
<key>NSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> - Save the file
- Click on the application icon in the Menu Bar to activate the application
- Type in an appropriate key combination:
- Command , : Show Preference
- Command q : Quit
- Shift-Command ? : Show Help

