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Can I stop El Capitan hiding part of a window when dragging it between monitors?
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<blockquote data-quote="Horsa" data-source="post: 1842353" data-attributes="member: 403905"><p>Well, the thread title says it in a nutshell.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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!</p><p></p><p>Many thanks,</p><p>Ken <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horsa, post: 1842353, member: 403905"] 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 :) [/QUOTE]
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