Wednesday, 15 May 2013

How to turn off animations in Linux Mint (Mate)



UPDATE: Check bottom of page.
If you find them as annoying as me, follow the steps:

ALT + F2
mateconf-editor

Go to desktop - mate - interface

Look for enable_animations and uncheck.

Done.

Update Jan 2014

Mateconf-editor has been replaced.
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools


dconf-tools

Update July 2015

Open terminal
sudo dconf-editor

Org/mate/desktop/interface and uncheck enable_animations.

and

org/mate/marco/general and check reduced_resources.

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