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Turning off Lion Mail’s animated windows

Road RunnerLion’s mail.app animates its windows. When you open a new message or reply to an existing one, the window “zooms out” to greet you.

I can hardly see this on my 27″ iMac, but it is noticable on my MacBook.

If you dislike this kind of frippery, or would simply rather turn the animation off and get to your messages more quickly, a Terminal command can get you there.

Open up Terminal and type in:

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES

If you change your mind it’s easy to go back again. Just open up the Terminal again, and type:

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool NO

What could be easier?

Via: Cult of Mac (via: MacOSXDaily )

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5 Responses to “Turning off Lion Mail’s animated windows”

  1. Bruno says:
    July 26th, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    Welcome back hawk!

  2. Nick Knisely says:
    July 27th, 2011 at 12:11 am

    Bless you! This was a subtle annoyance.

  3. Richard says:
    July 27th, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Thanks SO much for this! A restart of Mail.app is required, and then… non-animated bliss!

  4. Luke says:
    July 29th, 2011 at 2:57 am

    Thanks so much for this! I was really getting annoyed by the animations.

  5. Christian says:
    July 31st, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Yes!!

    animations off for me..

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