There are some users who wants to disable Mission Control’s Zoom Effects on the new Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion. So here’s how you could do so!
Apple combined both Expose and Spaces on Mac OS X Lion, which was released last year, with a new concept called, Mission Control. The Mission Control gives you an overview of all the activities on your Mac by showing you the spaces at the top of the screen and the opened apps at the bottom.
In Apple’s words, Mission Control is the Birds’ Eye view of the entire activities and which lets you navigate across all the activities on Mac OS X Lion. But for some reason, users find it irritating (I find it very useful though) and want to kick Mission Control’s Zoom Effects off completely, so that even if they do a three finger swipe-up gesture, the mission control doesn’t pop out. So, this tutorial is for those users who want to disable Mission Control’s Zoom Effect on their lovely Mac.
How to disable Mission Control’s Zoom Effect on Mac OS X Lion [Command Line]:
This process is pretty straight forward. All you need to do is just type or copy paste the following command into Terminal, and you’d forget about Mission Control’s Zoom Effect from then on!
- Fire up Terminal. You can find it under Launchpad or Use Spotlight.
- Type the following command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -int 0; killall Dock
And that’s it. You’ve just disable Mission Control’s Zoom Effect on your Mac. But at some point of time, if you feel that you’re missing out Mission Control and want to re-enable it, just set the flag to 1 and trigger the same command. Or type the following command in Terminal:
defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration;killall Dock
This would bring back the Zoom Effects on Mission Control once again!