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Disable window pop up animation in Mac OS X Lion

July 28th, 2011 by Tkjune

Fully agreed with some reviews of Mac OS X Lion that, pop up window animation is quite annoying. Luckily it also provides a way to disable it with Terminal.

In Terminal, paste command below and press enter:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

UPDATE on Aug 13,2011: Try Lion Tweaks to make it more easier. You can change many other hidden settings with it too.

Pop up window animation in Lion

6 Responses to “Disable window pop up animation in Mac OS X Lion”

  1. Michele Says:

    Hi - can you please repost - this didn't work for me... "defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled"

  2. Tkjune Says:

    @Michele you missed " -bool NO" in the end. You can also try Lion Tweaks, which contains more switches.

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