Questions tagged [desktop-effects]

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How to disable slow motion effect in Mac OS X (shift key)?

Mac OS X has a fantastic feature that enables you to play window effects in slow motion by holding down the Shift key while playing the animation (like minimize, maximize, Exposé, etc...) As a matter of fact, I don't like it! :) How can I disable…
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Explorer.exe keeps crashing if effects are enabled Error Status Code: c0000185

The explorer.exe keeps crashing before every minute after starts when all the effects are activated. These are the details of the error: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: InPageError Error Status Code: c0000185 Faulting Media Type: …
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Setting "Keep window thumbnails" to always in KDE "breaks minimization"? How?

KDE's Desktop effects (compositing) has a setting for when to keep window thumbnails. It says that setting this to always "breaks minimization". Does anyone know how it breaks minimization?
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How do you disable the zoom effect / window animations in OS X Lion?

How do you disable the zoom effect / window animations in the OS X Lion?
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Force Desktop Icon Drop-Shadow Without Wallpaper?

In Windows XP (and likely 2000 and Vista/7 as well), you can set the desktop icons to have a drop-shadow effect, but it only seems to work if a wallpaper is configured. Having the wallpaper set to None turns the drop-shadow off. This is presumably…
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Desktop effects like Compiz for MacOS

Is there a possibility in MacOs to add desktop effects? Like screen raining or a wall of fire which eats a window when you click "minimize". Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE
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How to enable 3D Cube and other effects in ubuntu?

How to enable 3D Cube and other effects in ubuntu? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10
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What does 'Mapping windows' mean, in Cinnamon Settings, Appearance, Effects, Customize settings?

Closing, minimizing, etc. make sense. But what is 'Mapping windows':
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How to show all windows on Windows 8 without re-scaling?

Upon desktop effects one of the features I appreciate the most is an easy and fast way to show all running windows at once. Like pressing Super-Key on Debian. A variation of this was Flip3D on WIndows 7... Windows 8 has the options of cascading…
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