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Well, the thread title says it in a nutshell.
I have a 2-monitor setup. Recently I graduated from Snow Leopard to El Capitan. Under Snow Leopard, when you drag a window from one monitor to the other, it remains fully visible throughout. To me, this behaviour makes perfect sense. It wasn't broke and didn't need fixing. Indeed, I found it useful. Occasionally, as the need arose, I could leave a window "in the middle", spanning the junction between the two monitors.
In designing El Capitan, some bright spark with a fertile imagination and far too much time on their hands decided that as you drag a window across, half of it will go semi-transparent, and if you drop the window so that it crosses the divide between monitors, half of it will disappear entirely, only re-appearing once the thing is fully in the other monitor. Whoever it was probably got extra sprinkles on their cappuccino for that little doozy.
Is there any way I can switch off this behaviour? A set of command-line instructions I could implement, perhaps? If it's not fixable, I'll just grit my teeth and live with it, but I'd prefer not to!
Many thanks,
Ken
I have a 2-monitor setup. Recently I graduated from Snow Leopard to El Capitan. Under Snow Leopard, when you drag a window from one monitor to the other, it remains fully visible throughout. To me, this behaviour makes perfect sense. It wasn't broke and didn't need fixing. Indeed, I found it useful. Occasionally, as the need arose, I could leave a window "in the middle", spanning the junction between the two monitors.
In designing El Capitan, some bright spark with a fertile imagination and far too much time on their hands decided that as you drag a window across, half of it will go semi-transparent, and if you drop the window so that it crosses the divide between monitors, half of it will disappear entirely, only re-appearing once the thing is fully in the other monitor. Whoever it was probably got extra sprinkles on their cappuccino for that little doozy.
Is there any way I can switch off this behaviour? A set of command-line instructions I could implement, perhaps? If it's not fixable, I'll just grit my teeth and live with it, but I'd prefer not to!
Many thanks,
Ken
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