Geek Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spaces-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="spaces-mac-os-x" title="spaces-mac-os-x" width="568" height="363" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13637" /></p> <p>Anytime you flip between Spaces in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> there’s a fancy animation, this is nice and all but it makes switching Spaces slower than it needs to be. You can disable the animation which speeds up Spaces transition a bit.</p> <p><strong>Disable Spaces Animation</strong> Launch Terminal and type:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES</code></p> <p>Then you’ll need to kill the Dock for changes to take effect:</p> <p><code>killall Dock</code></p> <p><strong>Re-enable Spaces Animation</strong> If you want to re-enable the Spaces animations, just change YES to NO:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool NO</code></p> <p>Kill the Dock again for the change to take effect.</p> <p>You can also speed up the Spaces transitions by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/10/change-the-delay-when-dragging-windows-within-spaces/">adjusting the time it takes to drag windows between desktops</a>.</p> <p>If you aren’t familiar, Spaces is the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/01/virtual-desktops-in-mac-os-x/">virtual desktop manager in Mac OS X</a>, allowing you to maintain several different desktops that are easy to flip between.</p> <p><em>Thanks to Rick for sending in this tip!</em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/F8pLLKGYEoI3QmiOfCMAFDQCLO4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/F8pLLKGYEoI3QmiOfCMAFDQCLO4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/F8pLLKGYEoI3QmiOfCMAFDQCLO4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/F8pLLKGYEoI3QmiOfCMAFDQCLO4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=GskuraHv6_I:a0EWJrnqftU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/GskuraHv6_I" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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