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Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by toddmorey on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:04PM (#42984772)
I’ve tried a lot of tiling window managers & Spaces replacements and it’s hard to take over that central piece of the OS reliably. There’s always at least one of my critical apps that freaks out.

What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by CharlesW on Saturday February 08, 2025 @02:18PM (#42985410)
> What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

You can turn on "Reduce Motion" to change it from a slide to a fast cross-fade.

Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by anon7000 on Saturday February 08, 2025 @03:12PM (#42985796)
I ultimately stopped because the trade off is not being able to see web animations (or most any animations in the OS) most of the time, which isn’t ideal as a web developer.
Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by lelandfe on Saturday February 08, 2025 @04:35PM (#42986398)
Looks like there's a Chrome command line flag to override it: `--force-prefers-no-reduced-motion`
Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by nicce on Saturday February 08, 2025 @07:57PM (#42987562)
> You can turn on "Reduce Motion" to change it from a slide to a fast cross-fade.

That is just an illusion. Time is the same. Instead, you need to add abstraction on top of CMD + Left/Right keybinds to get fast movement between spaces, for example.

Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by wojciech-kulik on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:07PM (#42984801)
Yep, tiling window managers usually cause a lot of glitches and you spend more time on fighting with glitches than gaining time using the app. That's why I built FlashSpace with no tiling and annoying taking control over your computer :).
Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by wojciech-kulik on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:08PM (#42984817)
And the terminal flag is not going to happen. Apple doesn't care ;).
Re:Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces rep... by Crowberry on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:19PM (#42987071)
And a hotkey to go directly to the space. Only seem to work for spaces now and not fullscreen apps, which I make heavy use of