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Is there any way to speed up the animation when you switch from one space to another on Mac OS X?

I'd like to make the space-transition quicker, or even instantaneous.

Does anybody know of any way to do this, or any software to do so?

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+1 Good question (although I don't feel Spaces animation is too slow for me). My research so far indicates that there are no options to speed up/turning off Spaces animation. – hanleyp Sep 6 '09 at 1:09
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  1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

  2. Copy and paste the following into the terminal window and then press enter:

    defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES && killall Dock

from hyperspace blog

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There is a utility app you can installed called Hyperspaces that adds features to Spaces. 6 days ago, there was an preview build from the developer which added an option to turn off Core Animation.

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I installed the preview build and it doesn't appear to change the animation at all. – hanleyp Sep 11 '09 at 4:05
Same here. The animation is annoying :) – Martín Marconcini Nov 12 '09 at 0:55
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Comment by @Tony Arnold: Disabling Core Animation in Hyperspaces does so for the desktop only, not the spaces transition - sorry! I'll be allowing you to use the old Space transitions from Tiger (including no transition) in a future release of Hyperspaces. – Ivo Flipse♦ Jan 9 '11 at 14:34
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I was not able to find any way to speed up the spaces animation, but I did find an article that explains how to lower the delay between dragging a window to another space and it actually moving to the other space. You can find the link below

http://kaspers.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/10/19/leopard-lower-the-space-drag-delay.html

Sorry I don't have an exact answer for you though!

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