Eliminate Shadows From Window Screenshots

Something I really like in Leopard is that window screenshots (Cmd-Shift-4, then tap the spacebar) include the shadow. While I might like this, a lot of people hate it. However, MacOSXHints has the solution: a one line terminal command:

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

Now, you either need to log out and log back in again, or, use

killall SystemUIServer

to reset the SystemUIServer. Now, your screenshots will go from this:



to this:



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