MacOS – How to disable animation when switching desktops in Lion

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I would very much like to disable the sliding animation that occurs when switching desktops via ctrl+/ or ctrl+[number] in Lion. This was previously accomplished in previous versions with this command:

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

This new animation is even more slow than in Snow Leopard – nearly 1 second to switch – a real productivity killer.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Best Answer

I posted a bug on Radar#28495374 and here is the response from Apple:

Fixed in 10.12. Go to Accessibility and Turn on Reduce Motion…

Please let us know whether the issue is resolved for you by updating your bug report.

Reduce motion in Accessibility mac os 10.12