How to Disable Drop Shadows from Appearing on Window ScreenShots in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Nov 30, 2013 by iHash Leave a Comment

OS X defaults to including drop shadows behind window-centric screen shots (not full screen captures), but these can be disabled.

Launch Terminal and insert this command:

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

For immediately effect of changes use this command:

killall SystemUIServer

If you want to revert back and have shadows on individual window screen captures again, use:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false
For immediately effect of changes use this command:
killall SystemUIServer

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