On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
> At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +0000, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> >personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be
> >to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly
> >attempting some graphical wizardry whilst chewing up CPU resources its
> >not one of the things I lust after .. but YMMV :)
>
> Alternate genie effects [for OSX]
>
> The "genie effect" is what happens when you click the yellow
> "minimize" button. You'll see your window get sucked down into
> the dock, as though it were being drawn into a funnel. While
> quite cool the first few times, some people (me!) have found
> it a little annoying after a while. Those with slower machines
> may also find it something of a CPU hog.
>
> Luckily, Apple included a way to change the genie effect, but
> chose not to put it into a GUI tool at this time. I'm sure
> someone will have one written within a week, but for now,
> here's how you do it. Open a terminal session (the Terminal
> application is inside Applications/Utilities), and type one
> of the following:
>
> defaults write com.apple.Dock mineffect genie
Java !!?
/J\
