defaults write to speed up os x
today i wondered why the dialogs are so slow on my mac mini. then it occurred to me that on my ibook i used a micro-hack to speed up appearance and disappearance time of certain dialog boxes.
this sets the animation time to what i think is the lower limit. if you enter a smaller time value, the animation will not look fluent any more. you might also set it to
a very nice variation is also to view the animation in full length and detail by setting the value to something like
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defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .07
this sets the animation time to what i think is the lower limit. if you enter a smaller time value, the animation will not look fluent any more. you might also set it to
.001, which will not animate the dialogs anymore but they merely pop onto your screen.a very nice variation is also to view the animation in full length and detail by setting the value to something like
2.0. with this setting, though, it is impossible to work productively. and if you perfectly liked the rather cosy speed of os x by default, then you can reset the value to .2.for more
defaults write tips, see the blog entry useful defaults write.
