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User profile for user: betaneptune
betaneptune Author
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How to get rid of window shadows?

I'm talking about on the screen, NOT SCREENSHOTS. Again, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT SCREENSHOTS. Sorry for the all caps bit, but searching on the internet for this always seems to end up being about screenshots, even though the OP doesn't mention them.


I don't mind them too much except when I put windows next to each other. You can gently bump one window against another and you get a nice fit. The borders are in contact. That's good. But then the active window casts a shadow on the edge of the inactive one. The very reason I put them together is to see both of them at full brightness from edge to edge!


Again, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT SCREENSHOTS. Is there a "fix"?


Oh, and has this been "fixed" in Big Sur?


TIA.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Apr 11, 2021 11:44 AM

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User profile for user: Kurt Lang
Kurt Lang
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Posted on Apr 11, 2021 1:07 PM

There was a free utility which could do that, but stopped working in El Capitan. The only other reference to your question I could find was a Github project:


https://github.com/puffnfresh/toggle-osx-shadows


But this is also quite old, and requires you to use clib or homebrew to install and run it.

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User profile for user: betaneptune
betaneptune Author
User level: Level 2
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Apr 11, 2021 2:44 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Greetings,


Bummer. I really wish there was a native setting for this, even the


defaults write com.apple...


stuff would be welcome. Maybe I'll try clib or brew.


Tech tip: Highlight some text in a document. Drag it to the Finder, and voila`! You get a file called


<the highlighted text truncated if too long>.txtClipping


and it contains the text you dragged over, untruncated!


Great for adding notes about the files in the current folder!

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User profile for user: Lexiepex
Lexiepex
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Apr 12, 2021 12:46 AM in response to betaneptune

As said: it is "part of" Big Sur.

When you are in Mojave there is no setting. BUT, you could try following:

Open Safari, set the "Develop" site on in settings, then choose the "Develop" site and see what all you can do with it, choose "experimental features", and try which one you need to activate or deactivate. I have no time to do it for you.


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