Disable Time Machine's warping background

[someguy]

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere. I searched, and also searched Google and couldn't find any solid answers.

I have Leopard on my PowerBook G4 and it runs great, with the exception of a little bit of lag when using the Time Machine interface. I'm looking for a way to disable the animated background, or completely remove the "outer space" style backdrop altogether if possible.

It'd be great if I could have Time Machine do it's thing without moving away from my desktop, but whatever I can do to make things run a little smoother would be great.

Anyone know any tricks/hacks/tools that can accomplish this to any extent? 🙂

 

[karenflower]

Mac Pilot has some options to tweak Time Machine, including disabling the space background animation.

 

[someguy]

Just what I was looking for. Thanks! 🙂

 

[upi]

Use Property List Editor on com.apple.finder.plist

Just what I was looking for. Thanks! 🙂

You can also edit the the 'com.apple.finder.plist' using Property List Editor.
Set the Key '_FXShowBackgroundAnimation' under 'Root' to boolean 'False'

 

[matthew12]

Where is that file?

You can also edit the the 'com.apple.finder.plist' using Property List Editor.
Set the Key '_FXShowBackgroundAnimation' under 'Root' to boolean 'False'

Where is that file anyway?

 

[someguy]

Where is that file anyway?

~/Library/Preferences

Also, nice thread resurrection! 🙂