Disabling drop shadows around windows or the menu bar
- by Lri
Nocturne can disable most shadows, but only in night mode.
There's an annoying flash whenever it switches to night mode. (Eg when it's launched.)
Also, it doesn't remove the shadow on the menubar.
Sympa at MacThemes forums has posted a .psd file with a layer that cancels out the shadow under the menu bar.
However it only works if that area of the desktop picture has a low enough brightness.
Applications that cover the desktop (like DeskShade) also cover the menu bar's shadow.
It's not a real solution though.
Unsanity's ShadowKiller stopped working in 10.5. (The website still says NOT compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard. ;))
WindowShade X doesn't have any shadow-tweaking features anymore.
Being able to decrease the shadow radius would be fine as well.
osx - How do I decrease the window shadow in Mac OS X? - Super User doesn't have any solutions though.
No, I don't mean defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool yes.
This seems like something that might just be possible without any extra applications. Or at least something that other applications besides Nocturne should support. So does anyone know any better solutions?