How can I change the window animations (minimize and restore) in Ubuntu 16.04 using command line only?
Ubuntu – Change window animations in Ubuntu 16.04 without additional tools
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I tried looking up this problem in other forums but none helped. So I came up with my own alternative method.
1) Change Unity Launcher's position to bottom
That can be done by running the following command in terminal
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom
2) Make sure auto-hide is enabled for the unity launcher and set its sensitivity to the lowest
(http://i.imgur.com/snzNQrA.png)
3)Press super key and add random apps to the unity launcher until it line ups with the docky placement.
(http://i.imgur.com/QbJc7Fu.png)
And now it should work :)
Note: If you open an app that you used as a random app in step 3, it may not minimize perfectly to docky
From unity tweak tool go to General and switch off Windows animations as seen below:
If you don't have it, you can install it with sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool.
Best Answer
Use one of the following commands to change the minimize and restore/unminimize animation, respectively:
And replace
NEWANIMATIONby one of the following strings:It seems like an invalid string is equivalent to
None. The default value forminimize-effectsisZoom, forunminimize-effectsit'sGlide 2.I extracted this information from the file
UnityTweakTool/section/windowmanager.pyfrom the Unity Tweak Tool source code.