Is it possible to turn off all animations on OS X?
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I have only enabled the first four of these, but here are all hidden preferences for disabling animations I have found.
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If you don't want to copy-paste each of the commands shown in the top answer, just select this text, copy-paste it to the terminal and press enter (it will execute all commands at once without having to scroll)
To undo the changes, paste this into the terminal:
Mac OS X also has dialog boxes, such as the 'Save As'-box (CMD+SHIFT+S) or the 'Print'-box (CMD+P). You can tweak the speed at which all of these boxes appear by using these commands: Instant:
Fast:
Default (0.2 seconds):
1 = 1 second. To see the difference you have to re-launch an app such as Terminal and summon a dialog box by pressing CMD+S ('Save') for example. You can find more command-line tweaks in defaults-write.com |
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Animation is everywhere in OS X, and it is not possible to disable all animation with one global setting, which makes this a very complicated question to answer completely. I would advise you to try disabling things one at a time as you find animations that annoy you. Check System Preferences to start. For example, the Dock magnification animation can be turned off in System Preferences -> Dock. Also, check out TinkerTool, which allows you to do the following:
If there's an animation that really bugs you and you can't figure out how to disable it, try posting a separate question here at Ask Different for that specific issue -- you will get a fast and accurate response. (And as a nice side effect, both you and the people helping you will earn more rep that way.) |
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In addition to the answers above, you can also use Secrets. Secrets is an open source PrefPane that lets you set all sorts of hidden options for all sorts of programs on your Mac.
Update: The main site is down and the project looks to be dead. Here is the Google Code Archive if you still want to use the vanilla version. |
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If you're wary of Terminal, Mountain Tweaks is another helpful GUI to turn off, turn on and otherwise tweak the behavior of Lion and Mountain Lion. |
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This answer, wrapped up as a shell script that allows you to toggle between states. examples
animations_osx.sh
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