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How do you disable the zoom effect / window animations in the OS X Lion?

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  • Which window animation?
    – Vervious
    Commented Jul 20, 2011 at 19:32

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Reset to default
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If you mean the new animations for opening and closing windows, they can be disabled with defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false.

Note that it makes the lookup popovers sometimes stay visible until windows are closed; sometimes showing them even makes applications crash.

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  • defaults read NSGlobalDomain |grep -i anim
    – godDLL
    Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 12:50
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I Would recommend installing Secrets Pref Pane it gives you access to loads of hidden options in Mac OS X. you will find the "Animate Window Zooms" option under the "Finder" section.

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  • That's basically the same as defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false mentioned in my answer
    – Lri
    Commented Jan 1, 2012 at 10:00
  • They both achieve the same thing yes, I find the prefpane is more convenient.
    – Wez
    Commented Jan 1, 2012 at 20:11

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