Disable window zoom, swoosh and eye candy effects and animations

[strausd]

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Dang itttttttttttt. I really want to get rid of that animation, its way too slow.

 

[Fofer]

Megazoomer+SIMBL is faster/smoother and works with 10.7 too!

Really? This one?

http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

It stopped working for me in Lion.

 

[AnneStuarto238]

After clean-install of 10.7 and reinstall of SIMBL it works well.
http://i.imgur.com/HGkfg.png

 

[cppguy]

I've found the command that disables the new window animation, which was my main gripe:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/25/disable-the-new-window-animation-in-mac-os-x-lion/

This fixes all the visual bugs, from VMware's zoom to full screen function, to double clicking an image in Nikon View NX 2, everything is back to normal, as it should be.

 

[Fofer]

After clean-install of 10.7 and reinstall of SIMBL it works well.
http://i.imgur.com/HGkfg.png

Thanks for this... I tested again and now have MegaZoomer working in Lion too. I think I was confused at because I didn't see the menu command any longer in TextEdit (as I know I used to invoke it there in that app with Snow Leopard.) I do see it many other apps though. (I think it only works in Cocoa apps, not Carbon, so perhaps TextEdit has undergone some significant "under the hood" changes with Lion.) MegaZoomer also does not work with apps written with Adobe AIR (like Zinio Reader 4 and Times Reader.) Once in magazine view, Zinio has its own fullscreen mode though, so that's not a big deal. Times Reader doesn't appear to have that as an option. I see "Mega Zoom" in that app's Window menu, but it is grayed out.

In any case, I am happy to have megazoomer installed and working (for the most part) again... it fills in a bit of the gap in Lion for some apps that don't have their own "native" fullscreen option yet.

Soon I'll be comparing it to Maximizer (although I've heard that has a few bugs and isn't quite ready for prime time yet.)

 

[Fofer]

I've found the command that disables the new window animation, which was my main gripe:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/25/disable-the-new-window-animation-in-mac-os-x-lion/

Yes, this is the same command I posted last week, here in this same thread.

 

[Doc69]

I'm OK with most animations in Lion except for the extremely slow space-switching animation. It seriously hurts my eyes and brain, mostly because the desktop and menu bar now moves as well as the windows.

I switch Spaces hundreds of times a day and had to downgrade to Snow Leopard because I couldn't take it anymore. As soon as someone figures out how to disable this animation in Lion, just like we could in 10.6, I'll be upgrading to Lion again.

 

[milo]

Thanks for all the tips here (and a shame some responses clearly just don't get it). Sorry to dig up an old thread, but anyone know of a way to disable the new animation when you click a folder arrow in list view? It used to just pop on the new view, now it tries to slide all the content down, much slower and for me it's really glitchy.

 

[starpony]

Dear God i did it

Disable window animations in the terminal by typing:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
Press Enter then relaunch the Finder with the Force Quit Applications function (press cmd+alt+esc). To enable again repeat but replace the NO at the end of the terminal command with YES

Disable Mail reply animations in the terminal by typing:
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES
Press Enter and relaunch Mail. To enable again repeat but replace the NO at the end of the terminal command with YES

Disable the switching Spaces animation in the terminal by typing:
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES && killall Dock

To enable again, type the following:
defaults delete com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off && killall Dock

 

[resting]

I downloaded Onyx, simply because I wanted to disable the zooming effect from normal windows to a full screen. It doesn't have this option

I do that a lot of maximizing and minimizing with iTerm and do need to do them very quickly.

Its instantaneous in SL, but in Lion its killing me. Wait a sec for it to expand to see a few lines, then wait again so I can go back to work on other stuff.

I don't like keeping it full screen since usually I have it side by side while doing my coding.

The new windows animations doesn't affect me. I just need to disable the full screen animation. Now, which is the solution for that?

 

[fiveainone]

Try "iTweaX". You can get it at Macupdate.com. It has options to disable all the extra animations and whatnot.

Here's the link to it:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31042/itweax

thanks for this.. gotta try it out tonight

 

[resting]

thanks for this.. gotta try it out tonight

does iTweaX disable the animation from normal to full screen app?

does mountain lion has the option to disable all these senseless animations and make things faster??

 

[temhawk]

Still no answer to the fullscreen and space switching animations? Sticking with 10.6.

 

[milo]

Maybe time to start a new thread about 10.9 and ask again if there's still a question about animations.