OS X Window shadowing

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RobinS

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Can it be removed? Its wasting a bit of screen real estate. I looked in Appearance in System Preferences but there was nothing. Nothing in Tinertool or Tinkertool System either.

So when a window with focus is over another window there is a shadow (about a 1/4") that darkens the area bordering it.

Can this be removed? Seems like needless eye candy. Sort of like decorative margins. Boy I bet I really sound like a fun guy! :) LOL>
 
I've seen two utilities that can do this.

ShadowKiller is freeware. It noticeably improves performance (at least on older hardware), but the result is very ugly. It completely eliminates the shadow, and since the shadow is the only thing that visually separates one window from another, eliminating it makes things confusing. It's fun to test it, but I could never tolerate using it for very long.

WindowShade X is shareware. It allows you to tweak the shadow settings a lot. You can turn the shadows into little solid lines, essentially eliminating them while maintaining the visual separation. I find that it doesn't improve performance like ShadowKiller, though, probably because it's really still drawing a shadow, just with different settings. Also, it requires Application Enhancer, the Bringer of Kernel Panics. ;) (Actually, I use Application Enhancer, and it's never given me problems. But it's certainly caused problems for a lot of people, especially when upgrading the OS, so....approach with caution.)

I'm not sure if either works in Leopard, but I know they both work in Tiger.
 
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