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This is the most important one, that's not been mentioned in OP: defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO It disables the stupid "smooth scroll
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
This is the most important one, that's not been mentioned in OP:
defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO
It disables the stupid "smooth scrolling". on Lion (and everything before that) you could disable it from the 'General' tab of SysPrefs, but now it's gone.
What does it do? When you press spacebar in a web browser, or fn-downarrow in a text editor, it "smoothly" bring new content up from the bottom of the screen and pushes current screen up.
I don't know, maybe it works great on recent machines, but my poor old 2009 MBP's graphics card is not really powerful, and this animation is not smooth at all. It distracts me a lot.
I strongly suggest you at least try it. If you don't like it, just replace NO with YES and everything's back to normal.
- ewillbefull 14y agoIs there a way to change or disable the animation time when switching between spaces (or "desktops" as they are now called)?
- pooriaazimi 14y agoTo my knowledge, no. But the suggestions at http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17929/how-can-i-disable-animation-when-switching-desktops-in-lion http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17929/how-can-i-dis... help a little bit.
- cjlm 14y agoThe only way I know of is with "TotalSpaces", currently in a free beta. http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/ http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/
- lparry 14y agoI'm completely the opposite; having windows contents jarrigly jump down slows me down significantly as I keep having to scan to find my place. It's one thing that annoys me about vimium that there's no option to j/k scroll smoothly
- pooriaazimi 14y agoI would love it too, if it wasn't 8 frames per second on my machine! I love animations, but this one is ridiculously slow on my machine...
- Feanim 14y agoStrange. It works fine in my early 2008 MBP.