Google Chrome disable window animations

Question

After updating to Chrome 58 I noticed a new "zoom-fade" effect when restoring a minimized window, or opening a new window (Ctrl+N). This feels very unnecessary, and - in my desktop environment - totally out of place.

Is there a way to permanently disable all window animation effects?

Answer 1

You can disable the animation by adding the --wm-window-animations-disabled command-line flag.

For Linux/Ubuntu you can make this permanent by editing the Chrome shortcut at /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop. There are 3 Exec= lines where you will need to add --wm-window-animations-disabled immediately after the executable name.

If you find that this is no longer working, re-check your shortcuts as some Chrome updates (via a package manager) could have overwritten the shortcut(s), so you may need to re-edit them.

Answer 2

There's easy way to get rid of those animations everywhere & permanently under Linux.

Here's an example for Ubuntu:

sudo nano /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/dis_wm-window-anim

(on Debian its /etc/chromium.d/dis_wm-window-anim)

then

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="${CHROMIUM_FLAGS} --wm-window-animations-disabled"

Ctrl+x -> y -> "enter"