Geek Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/disable-new-window-animation-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="The New Window Animation in Mac OS X Lion can be disabled if you don't like it" title="disable-new-window-animation-os-x-lion" width="620" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19287" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> brings a subtle new window animation, it’s so subtle that many people probably won’t even notice it, but it displays any time a new window is created. It’s better seen than described (the above screenshot only captures so much), but basically the new window grows to full sized version out of a microscopic version of itself, seemingly appearing out of nowhere.</p> <p>It all happens very quickly, but like everything else that gets changed with a new version of an OS, some people don’t lik it, and other users are noting that it makes Lion feel slower than Snow Leopard – considering it lasts only a millisecond I disagree, but I can understand both concerns so we’ll go ahead and show you how to disable it. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Disabling the New Window Animation in OS X 10.7 Lion</h2> <p>You’ll need to use the Terminal and a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/defaults-write/">defaults write</a> command to disable this. </p> <p><code>defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO</code></p> <p>You’ll have to relaunch any currently running apps to have the changes take effect. If you want the new Lion window animation back, that’s easy too: <span id="more-19286"></span> <code>defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool YES</code></p> <p>Again I want to emphasize that the change is very subtle and many users won’t even notice it, so don’t be surprised if you find this tip relatively uneventful. </p> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/siracusa/status/95246488174739456">tomasf/siracusa on Twitter</a> for the tip.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vHk9sguaZeQvaZCQXwDpmXEYn50/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vHk9sguaZeQvaZCQXwDpmXEYn50/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vHk9sguaZeQvaZCQXwDpmXEYn50/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vHk9sguaZeQvaZCQXwDpmXEYn50/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=kyV2JqO8aS0:rVQY-QObeVQ: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/kyV2JqO8aS0" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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