![]() In addition to adding Leopard compatibility, WindowShade X 4.2 works better with iTunes and fixes a number of bugs. For example, you can choose the translucency of “transparent” windows choose the size and behavior of minimized-in-place windows and set up application-specific preferences so, for example, double-clicking the menu bar of a window does one thing in the Finder, another in your favorite Web browser, and another in Photoshop.Ī standard window (upper-left) and the same window with WindowShade X’s effects applied: standard windowshade (upper-right), transparency (lower-left), and minimize-in-place (lower-right). You can also customize many of these effects. ![]() You’re also supposed to be able to create your own actions and keyboard shortcuts unfortunately, I haven’t gotten this feature to work properly. (You can choose from among several different actions.) For example, on my Macs, double-clicking a window’s title bar windowshades it, while control-double-clicking makes the window translucent. ![]() Like previous versions, version 4.2 offers a standard windowshade mode, as well as three other “minimize” features: transparency, which makes a window translucent so you can see what’s behind it minimize-in-place, which shrinks a window down to the size of a large icon (that you can move around) and hiding, which hides the application to which the window belongs.īut you don’t have to choose just one of these modes via the WindowShade X preferences pane, you can assign a different action to each mode, as well as change the action required to get the standard minimize-to-Dock behavior. Why only until a couple weeks ago? Because that’s when Unsanity finally released WindowShade X 4.2, the first official release that works with Leopard. Windowshading” when the feature first debuted as part of System 7.5 (actually before that, via third-party INITs), and used WindowShade in OS X for years, by the time Leopard was released I’d been using this functionality for nearly two decades! That’s some serious muscle memory to overcome, and, in fact, as recently as a couple weeks ago I still found myself wanting to “roll up” windows. Unfortunately, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) broke WindowShade X, forcing fans to muddle through without it.
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