OS X Lion desktop switching speed

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One of the things I've noticed about OS X Lion that is really annoying me is that when you switch desktop to the next one over (this starts out as the Ctrl + ← / → shortcut) this animation is much slower than the switch animation that gets set off when you switch desktops with the keyboards shortcut for go to desktop number X.

Is there any way to override the speed so that I can get faster switching of desktops with the move between adjacent desktops keyboard shortcut?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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It seems like there is currently no way to change the animation speed. (On a related note: Moving through the spaces with Ctrl-[1,2, ...] does work a little faster.)

There also is a related question at apple stackexchange.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

Community

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answered Nov 28 '11 at 21:28

oliverguenther

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 07 '11 at 06:47

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Open up terminal and type this at the prompt:

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

edited Nov 07 '11 at 06:47

akira

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answered Aug 20 '11 at 09:27

l'L'l

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '12 at 13:16

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TotalSpaces has options to make the animations faster or to remove them. There's a small additional delay before spaces are changed though. Disabling transitions appears somewhat glitchy at least on my installation of 10.8.

answered Jul 31 '12 at 13:16

Lri

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OS X Lion desktop switching speed

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