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How do I decrease the window shadow in Mac OS X?

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Mar 15, 202627457 views
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I've found the default 40px Mac OS X window shadow too big: Is it possible to decrease it to, say, 4px? Update: I can disable shadows entirely with , but I don't want to. I do want decrease them.

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defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

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Only the frontmost window has this huge shadow, it's smaller for background windows. So you can try screenshotting non-focused windows (easy if you activate e.g. Mail and close all its windows, so no window has focus). However you would have to live…

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