My MacBook, with Retina Display, has problems with smooth animations. How can I turn off the transparency (and blur) in Launchpad on OS X El Capitan?
Also I'd like to turn off animation when I open folders with apps in Launchpad. Is this possible?
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Sign up to join this communityMy MacBook, with Retina Display, has problems with smooth animations. How can I turn off the transparency (and blur) in Launchpad on OS X El Capitan?
Also I'd like to turn off animation when I open folders with apps in Launchpad. Is this possible?
You can enter the following commands in Terminal.app, they will turn off the relevant animations:
# showing and hiding Launchpad
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -float 0
# changing pages in Launchpad
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration -float 0
# restart Dock
killall Dock
There are quite a few other animations you can turn off as wel. Take a look at this answer or you could use TinkerTool
To turn the animations back on, you enter the same commands, but with 1
instead of 0