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why i am seeing the purple window?

FOTO app is on the purple window!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 16, 2015 2:01 PM

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Posted on Oct 16, 2015 10:57 PM

Do you mean something like this?

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The purple underlay is a debugging feature that can be triggered manually or automatically when a layout error occurs. I deliberately mangled the layout of this sample app.


To disable the most likely trigger of the issue (this won't correct the layout problem—it'll just stop the underlay from showing), you can paste the following command into Terminal and then quit and reopen Photos:

defaults delete com.apple.Photos NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints


If that doesn't keep the purple window from appearing, then it's being triggered manually deep within Photos's source code and there's nothing you or I could do to directly stop it from happening.

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Oct 16, 2015 10:57 PM in response to mitya05

Do you mean something like this?

User uploaded file


The purple underlay is a debugging feature that can be triggered manually or automatically when a layout error occurs. I deliberately mangled the layout of this sample app.


To disable the most likely trigger of the issue (this won't correct the layout problem—it'll just stop the underlay from showing), you can paste the following command into Terminal and then quit and reopen Photos:

defaults delete com.apple.Photos NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints


If that doesn't keep the purple window from appearing, then it's being triggered manually deep within Photos's source code and there's nothing you or I could do to directly stop it from happening.

why i am seeing the purple window?

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