Can Animation of Moving Windows Be Disabled?

Questions & Suggestions
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Does anyone know how to disable the window movement animation when using the Move a Window Action? I've so far…

  • "Reduced motion" in macOS.

  • Run the terminal command for KM (defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.engine DisableAnimation -bool YES) and restarted both KM Editor and the KM Engine.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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You can try:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001

I think the application needs to be relaunched (so perhaps restart after changing this), and I don't know whether they work (or still work).

See:

I'd be interested to know whether they work or not.

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Thank you, Peter. That did the trick!

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Thank you again for your suggestion. It worked at first. And now…suddenly it's not. Windows are also animating again when I use the KM Action Move Window. Any ideas? I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

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If it stopped working, you should try issuing the "defaults" commands again now to see what happens. If that fixes it, it means that some app reverted the defaults.

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@Airy @peternlewis Running the commands again and quitting the apps didn't change anything - but rebooting did. I think that's the trick. I believe what may have reset the animations was running BetterDisplay, which is an amazing app - and animations may simply be reset in the course of it working its magic. Thanks again, all!

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