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Fixing Choppy Animations and UI on Mac

March 29, 2013

I’ve been having this problem for several months now and it mostly affected Exposé and switching between full-screen apps. It was very annoying to say the least, but I learned to live with it by tweaking the animation duration, like so:

defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0 ; killall Dock


Swiping between full screen apps still resulted in choppy animation though, which bugged me for months. I didn’t want to do a clean install on my two-year old Mac so I tried to find something online.

Doing so, I found the following (admittedly weird) solution:

I don’t know if this works on retina MacBooks, but it’s worth a try.

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I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Bristol. Can't think of something smart and witty about me to write right now so I'll just leave this as is for the time being. Twitter || Github.