This article explains steps you can take to enable or disable Animations when using a Ubuntu Linux desktop.
Ubuntu comes with many features and visual effects, including animation and fading effects that enhance your experience with the desktop. On faster computers, these are cool features you may want to enable and use.
Howerver, on slower computers, these visual effects and animations feature can hurt system performance and may add a slight delay to some activities and actions.
If you begin experiencing slowness when using your desktop or if you have an older computer, disabling animations may help improve performance.
Below is how to turn on or off animations in Ubuntu Linux.
Turn on or off desktop animations on Ubuntu Linux
As described above, animations in Ubuntu Linux may enhance your experience with the desktop on faster computers. However, on slower computers, this may hurt performance and slow down your computer.
Here’s how to enable or disable it.
Ubuntu Linux has a centralized location for the majority of its settings. From system configurations to creating new users and updating, all can be done from the System Settings panel.
To get to System Settings, open the Activities overview and start typing Settings.
Alternatively, click on the System menu at the top-right corner of the top bar on your desktop.
On the System menu, select Settings as highlighted below.
In the Settings app, select Accessibility on the left menu.
On the System Settings -> Accessibility settings panel, under the Seeing section, toggle the button for the “Enable Animations” tile to the On position to enable.
To disable it, simply toggle the button back to the Off position.
The option you choose will automatically apply to your desktop.
That should do it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to enable or disable desktop animations on Ubuntu Linux desktops. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
