Windows 10: Is there anything I can do to change the app-switching animation to the desktop switching...

The 4-finger swipe animation is beautiful and feels good. The 3-finger swipe doesn't feel nice at all - the animation is a little too harsh. Is there any way to change this animation to make it more like the 4-finger desktop swiping animation?

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Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Switching Animation

I recently discovered the option to use multiple virtual desktops in Windows 10, and I've already found it to be useful for quickly switching between programs without having to minimize windows and look through tabs to find what I have open.

One use I thought it would be good for would be quickly switching between two desktops, one with a videogame in fullscreen being played and another with, say, a program displaying system temperatures open, to be able to easily transition from playing a game
to checking on my system to make sure it's running well. However, upon trying this, I found it wasn't all great. It works as expected, but when using the Ctrl + Windows + Arrow key shortcut to switch from the desktop the game is running on to the other one,
I found that the game will be be minimized when I switch back to the desktop it is on, and the animation for switching from the game desktop to the secondary desktop does not play properly when the game is in fullscreen - it will instead show a black screen
for roughly the duration of the normal animation, and then the desktop I was switching to will appear with no animation at all. This isn't the smooth experience I was hoping to get, so I'm wondering if there is some way to fix both of these problems - the
animation not showing when switching from a desktop with a fullscreen game running on it, and that fullscreen game now being minimized when I get back to it.

Any help would be appreciated, as this is a feature I want to make use of but will refrain from using if issues such as these exist.

 

How to disable animation when switching workspace in Windows 10?

1. Click on the Start button (or push the Windows key on your keyboard)
   
2. Type "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows" and select it from the suggestions menu.
   
3. Uncheck the checkbox for "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing".
   

This will stop the animation when switching between Windows 10 Workspaces/Desktops.

 

Animations for show desktop / switching apps ? It is a very crude


Hi there

Could someone please shed some light as to why when showing the desktop or switch apps it is these intense flashes between the two different states. If you swipe down on your mouse pad and bring up the desktop it does not transition. Sure we want to get to our desktop fast but surely there are better transitions - the extra bit of refinement that windows can make. I mean if you swipe with four fingers to the next desktop (not that I ever need to as I dont use extra desktops ) that is such a waste of a beautiful animation. It could be used in showing the desktop. The same applies to switching apps with three finger swipe. It just flashes to the next app which I find really annoying. It is availiable on the tablet mode which I used for sometime but sewitched back to desktop mode because even tablet mode is a ridiculous excuse for touch screen computers. (some windows do not show in this mode becasue of the restrictions they have on their window so they just dont all go fullscreen and just dont show up such as a dialogue box etc. Please dont ask me which program etc to diagnose the problem further I am merely stating that the windows we have now is a silly excuse for a better product we are promised in the future. through these updates that we have limited control over to what they are doing to my computer.)

I also still dont fully understand the process of switching apps with the three finger swipe- especially when you have multiple programs open, does windows equally divide your trackpad up according to the amount of apps you have as you swipe through them? The whole process feels so unrefined - I mean c'mon! We are in 2018! surely it is not that hard to make something transition beautifully especially when that is at the front end of the user interaction.

My question how can I add transitions to these swipes?

** EDIT / ADD (while I am on the topic)

I could also say if you have 2 windows side by side and you swipe three fingers up and you go to the app viewer sometimes the apps crossover (the right app goes to the left, the left app goes to the right) - whatever the process of order is maybe it could be so they don't crossover? This is also when you have 2 apps open.

Then when you swipe three fingers back the shadow that divides your two apps to show which app is being used just flahes on - i feel these are really small details but can make very big differences to user interaction - can the UI designers not make animations so harsh? Or am I wrong please can someone enlighten this whole animation system. Some animations are great but others need a lot of work.

Cheers