TUAW Tip: Speed up Sheet animation

I was reading this article from MacDevCenter on how productivity maven Mark Hurst sets up a new "Good Easy Mac" for his own maximally productive use. He's got a number of interesting choices (check them out for yourself), but one of the coolest tips was a link to a MacOSXhints hint that describes how to speed up your sheet dialog boxes. These are the boxes that appear when you open, save, or print and by default OS X animates them so that they drop down and expand. Well if you open a lot of these sheets like I do, this can get annoying after a while, especially if you use Default Folder X, which adds its own delay. Anyway, a simple terminal command can radically speed up the appearance of these sheets, which over the course of a day can really cut down on the annoyance factor. All you have to do is open the terminal and type:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001
If you want to restore the default behavior just replace the '.001' with '.2' Anyway, try it, I bet you'll like it.
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I was reading this article from MacDevCenter on how productivity maven Mark Hurst sets up a new "Good Easy Mac" for his own maximally...
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That's great - is there a way to turn off transparency for these things too?
September 14 2007 at 7:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@5cents
Thanks for the link.
Or try sheetseed, a prefpane configuration tool with excellent control. Been stable for me since i started using it several months ago.
http://www.ampersand-interactive.com/SheetSpeed/
Awesome. I just did it. There is a small difference.
July 28 2007 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCocktail also offers the option to speed this up, though without the same level of precision.
July 27 2007 at 9:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust relaunch the Finder, along with any other open apps, and you're good to go.
July 27 2007 at 7:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI don't notice any difference. Do you have to restart, or at least relaunch the app in question?
Cheers,
FL
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