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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 it?
Daniel Silveira
Posted 2010-03-18T17:32:30.063
Reputation: 534
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Open up Terminal.app
Type:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
If you want to go back, use:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true
You'll need to restart the Finder after running the command.
Loïc Wolff
Posted 2010-03-18T17:32:30.063
Reputation: 1 947
3no workie, yosemite – mcmlxxxiii – 2015-01-28T02:07:14.107
4Sorry... it did not work. Maybe it doesn't works on Snow Leopard. – Daniel Silveira – 2010-03-20T17:47:13.420
2Agreed, it did not work for me when i tried to disable the slow animation for expose on snow leopard – emmby – 2010-04-26T15:16:14.803
3Eh.. didn't work for me either, Lion 10.7.4 – Pavel Alexeev – 2012-06-04T09:48:01.617
1no workie, mountain lion – Peter Ehrlich – 2013-11-16T02:56:29.023
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At least for me, in Yosemite 10.10.3, the following answer from our friends at Ask Different worked: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/115698
You can disable the hotkeys for slow motion effects by following these instructions:
Open Terminal
Go to ~/Library/Preferences by typing cd ~/Library/Preferences.
Write open com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist and press Enter.
A window similar to this will open:
For items 34, 35, and 37, set enabled to NO.
Restart your system.
Enjoy.
SCdF
Posted 2010-03-18T17:32:30.063
Reputation: 293
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Looks like you should have just waited 8 years where it’s now disabled and people want it back on! (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/303106/how-to-enable-slow-genie-effect-in-macos-10-13-high-sierra)
– user535673 – 2018-10-30T20:14:55.4701Cool - didn't know about that. And +1 for asking in a positive way. – Andrew Grimm – 2011-02-10T11:44:58.777