[rpdillon]

>it will take a few moments to scan the screen, realise the change and adapt in my mind

I'm consistently astonished at how visual so many people are in their usage of a computer. The array of icons I see folks scanning on their phones to pick and app is like that, but so are Apple's window managers. That's fine, but they don't offer any alternative.

I maintain a list of spaces in my mind and have them assigned to numbers. I think this comes from using tmux and screen for so long. I just want my display to instantly teleport me to that space. The idea that they are layed out on a table and have to slide out of view is a weird skeumorphic thing that I wish they would at least allow folks to disable, since it eats keyboard input during the animation.

If any other company had done this, people would deride them for the thoughtless design.

[gregoriol]

I do agree that alternatives and options for power users must be available, everyone should be able to tweek things until they are satisfied as everyone is different

[parentheses]

I believe you can turn off all the movement animations and configure the switching time to be near instant using `defaults`

[rpdillon]

Sadly, after many hours troubleshooting this, the answer is that you cannot. Even with reduced motion and turning off as much animation as possible, there is a 1,000 millisecond input delay in switching workspaces on Mac. That is a fundamental limitation of the core operating system APIs.

[oliviergg]

If I remember correctly there is a command line option. I do it many year ago on my Mac, and I can switch space without any delay / animation Edit : You're right, there is some Fade transition between space, but it is not 1000 ms. defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -int 1; killall Dock