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placatedmayhem 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window

Does the Reduce Transparency option in Accessibility remove the drop shadow? If it does, I'd expect it to be all windows, but might satisfy your desire here.

satvikpendem 8 months ago [–]

It does not, unfortunately. It's baked into macOS and is extremely difficult to remove, requiring all sorts of hacks which break at each OS release.

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