There's an application called ShadowKiller that seems popular and supposedly works for Lion, but it just seems to die as soon as I try to start it on Mountain Lion.
I'd like to get around of the shadows surrounding a window.
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This thread should be extended to OSX Yosetime too, I think.– Léo Léopold Hertz 준영Commented Mar 21, 2015 at 17:28
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This one works well for me: toggle-osx-shadows.
It is easy to compile and use, and there are only 17 lines of code.
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1If you don't have XCode, and don't mind downloading from people's Dropbox's, here's the util, which I just compiled on my Mac ;-) I didn't do anything to it, and it worked great for me... But if you're not adventurous, download it from the git repo above and build it yourself! dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/274922/toggle-osx-shadows You'll have to
chmod 700 toggle-osx-shadowsto make it executable, of course! Commented Sep 5, 2014 at 16:12 -
Tested ok on Yosemite : Using brew : brew install raw.githubusercontent.com/puffnfresh/toggle-osx-shadows/master/… Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 21:21
ShadowKiller still works for me on 10.8, but it's supposed to quit silently after it's opened. You can run it at login by adding it to login items.
Nocturne also has an option to disable the shadows.
Related questions at Super User:
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Ah I see. I tried Nocturne but it seems like the disable shadows option doesn't do anything either. Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 20:14
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I spent a lot of time on this issue, and even got to the point that I wrote a little program to fix it. Then I discovered something much simpler:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES
The second one is necessary because Safari doesn't seem to like the shadows (you get a "Invalid unbuffered shadow parameters." comment in syslog).
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I ran those commands in a terminal window. Nothing happened. Where are they supposed to be modified?. Sorry newbie to Mac.– so_mvCommented Apr 27, 2013 at 18:25
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so_mv: log out & in; the only thing I notice these commands changing is removing shading on the window title bar... shadows are still cast onto underlying windows– DolphCommented Jun 6, 2013 at 12:50
The program I use to do this on OS X 10.8.4 is ShadowSweeper.
http://download.cnet.com/ShadowSweeper/3000-2072_4-75966596.html
This one looks like it might also work but I haven't tried it myself.
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Thanks for the answers on this. Be sure to read the promotion section of help center if you recommend the same software several times.– bmike ♦Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 19:25