| In Mac OS X many dialog boxes slide out of a window's title bar and are attached to that window rather than being on their own. These dialog boxes are know as "sheets" and can be anything from Open/Save dialogs to the Customise Toolbar settings. They are attached to a certain window to show that they are associated with that particular file or application. If you can't remember seeing this before, open up a TextEdit file and choose Save As.The sliding animation may be pretty, but it can waste a fair amount of time if you are opening and closing sheets all day. You can speed this up and make your Mac feel much snappier by using a simple Terminal command to reduce the amount of time taken to display the animation.Launch the Terminal (located in Application/Utilities) and type the following command:defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.001The number at the end is the length of the animation in seconds. With it set to 0.001, sheets appear pretty much instantly. The default i... |
