Disable iTerm 2’s animation display

Thanks to HackerNews user shabble, here’s a trick to be able to delay iTerm 2’s annoying animation display:

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 HotkeyTermAnimationDuration -float 0.00001

It’s done wonders for making it feel more responsive. Now, if only I could disable the animation delay for switching between spaces on the Mac …

2 thoughts on “Disable iTerm 2’s animation display”

Tanner says:

October 5, 2014 at 4:17 pm

I know it’s been a while since this was published, but TotalSpaces will take care of the animation for spaces. I just found that, and thought, “If only I could get rid of the animation delay for iTerm 2…” Then I found this, so thank you!

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Per Edin says:

January 25, 2015 at 8:15 pm

Thanks for this!

If you ever find out how to disable Mac OS X’s very annoying animations please let me know. The Mac OS X window manager must be the least user friendly (read user configurable) window manager in existence.

/Per

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