WindowShade Redux

Another haxie reborn, from Rosyna Keller (Mastodon):

Instead of only cramming minimized windows into a crowded dock—or hiding them altogether—WindowShade Redux reduces your windows to their title bars or small live thumbnails at all times. It supports over twenty animation styles with the following power features:

• Minimize the window to the Dock, as always
• WindowShade the window into a tiny strip to quickly peek below or get it out of the way
• Minimize-In-Place the window so it becomes a really small thumbnail that you can freely drag the thumbnail around your screen
• Make any window float on top so it will never be obscured by other windows

$10 (with $7 intro price), and there are bundle discounts with FruitMenu and Xounds.

Modern macOS no longer allows one process to change the geometry of a window owned by another process (application), so I had to redesign and rewrite the core from scratch. Now, WindowShade Redux fakes everything hard. WindowShade Redux takes a snapshot of visible windows, composites them into an image, and displays it either as a fake WindowShade window or as a Minimize-In-Place (MIP) thumbnail to hide the Dock’s 500-millisecond genie animation. Floating on top was an entirely different beast, as it requires constantly recording the target window and laying a new WindowShade Redux window on top of it. This fake window is then moved in tandem with the real window below it.

Previously:

• FruitMenu Redux
• Sequoia Screen Recording Prompts and the Persistent Content Capture Entitlement