Zooming While Opening (the stopping of)

[jasnw]

Still getting used to Sonoma. My current headache, almost literally, is how app windows jump out at you when you open them. Maybe this isn't all apps, but the MS Office apps certainly do this. My annoyance goes deeper that this even - I really do not like all the little animations which are designed, I guess, to show how cute and adorable the computer is. Just because you have spare CPU cycles doesn't mean you need to use them. Particularly on the GUI equivalent of syntactic sugar (more like syntactic cocaine). Anyway, is there any control hidden somewhere that can make this madness stop?

 

[DeltaMac]

I tested this in MS Office apps. Some (not all) existing documents will do a zoom out to the size that was used to create/edit the document. SOME documents simply open to the edit size, and don't do an animated zoom. I haven't been able to decide what makes the difference, but I am sure it is somewhere in the coding of the Office apps. As I said, doesn't appear to be the system doing that in Office apps, and appears to be a bug, or simply an inconsistent display affect by Office apps. At least, that is my experience.

Did find a setting in Onyx, that may help you... Again, it's in the Onyx app/Parameters/Finder/Graphic effects. Turn off "Use window zooming". That may be all that you need.
If you don't have Onyx, you can find it to download at this link. Get the specific version for Sonoma, as each macOS version has a separate Onyx version.

 

[jasnw]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I had Onyx on a system some time ago but for some reason stopped using it. Good excuse to pull it back into the toolkit.

 

[MacCheetah3]

Maybe?

Stop or reduce onscreen motion on Mac

On your Mac, stop or reduce the movement of elements on the screen.

support.apple.com

How To Reduce Desktop Animations on a Mac with Reduce Motion

The Mac, just like iOS, has more than its fair share of fancy animations that accompany most user interactions.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[jasnw]

Thanks. Tried all of those to no effect. I'm starting to think this is "Clippy's revenge" brought to us by our friends just across the lake from where I live.

 

[zevrix]

Stop or reduce onscreen motion on Mac​

On your Mac, stop or reduce the movement of elements on the screen. support.apple.com

Unfortunately, Apple is lying: this option is a fake option that doesn't do anything. That is, it doesn't do anything to disable the plethora of actual annoying and distracting animations and UI convulsions that plague macOS these days.

 

[zevrix]

I had Onyx on a system some time ago

In addition to Onyx, you can also run this command in Terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

 

[zevrix]

Still getting used to Sonoma. My current headache, almost literally, is how app windows jump out at you when you open them.

Well, the scourge of animations - including the window opening convulsion - actually started on Lion. Fortunately, we can disable most (but not all) of them via Terminal commands or UI tools like Onyx (as you know anyway).

 

[Fishrrman]

There's an old, free utility out there called "Mountain Tweaks" that can do some of this for you.

The app is OLD -- it was made around the time of Mountain Lion OS 10.8 -- but it STILL WORKS on the latest OS versions for some functions. I believe it's pretty much just providing a graphical user interface for executing certain terminal commands in the background. I'd suggest seeking it out and trying it.