Smooth Exposé is back in Tiger!

carvascarvas
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in macOS edited January 2014
If you installed Tiger and you have a sluggish Exposé then try this... with Quartz Debug go to "Show Beam Sync Tools" and choose "Disable Beam Sync"... hit the F9 key



Regards

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    johnqjohnq Posts: 2,763member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by carvas

    If you installed Tiger and you have a sluggish Exposé then try this... with Quartz Debug go to "Show Beam Sync Tools" and choose "Disable Beam Sync"... hit the F9 key



    Regards





    Any commandline method? I'm not curious enough to install the dev tools.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    jwink3101jwink3101 Posts: 739member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by carvas

    If you installed Tiger and you have a sluggish Exposé then try this... with Quartz Debug go to "Show Beam Sync Tools" and choose "Disable Beam Sync"... hit the F9 key



    Regards



    you should submit this to MacOSXhints.com
  • Reply 3 of 10
    jwink3101jwink3101 Posts: 739member
    nevermind. Its been done
  • Reply 4 of 10
    carvascarvas Posts: 8member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by johnq

    Any commandline method? I'm not curious enough to install the dev tools.



    don't know any command line method sorry. its just cuz im no expert in command lines...

    you can download quartz debug, it's a small app...
  • Reply 5 of 10
    carvascarvas Posts: 8member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jwink3101

    nevermind. Its been done



    i was messing around with the quartz debug app and discovered this!
  • Reply 6 of 10
    jwink3101jwink3101 Posts: 739member
    I was in no way accusing you of copying. I read it then thought it would be a good hint.



    I then went to the site and realized there was a similar hint. I hope i did not offend you. It was not intended to.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    carvascarvas Posts: 8member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jwink3101

    I was in no way accusing you of copying. I read it then thought it would be a good hint.



    I then went to the site and realized there was a similar hint. I hope i did not offend you. It was not intended to.



    hey no problem

    i'm just happy seeing exposé acting like it should act!



    kind regards!
  • Reply 8 of 10
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by johnq

    Any commandline method? I'm not curious enough to install the dev tools.



    You only need the Quartz Debug app, not the whole dev tools. Here is my copy you can download:



    http://www.johnnylundy.com/Quartz%20Debug.zip
  • Reply 9 of 10
    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    Sounds like using the ATI control panel and disabling VSync for games, even when the game has its own inline VSync preference.



    Not sure what the Beam Sync means for LCD users.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    xoolxool Posts: 2,460member
    Ok, for me, while Disable Beam Sync helps smooth out Expose, when I drag windows around I end up getting tearing. With Expose the tearing isn't as noticeable however.



    At this point I'm not sure which I'll stick with, but since the Beam Sync stuff is on Auto by default I'll probably just leave it that way.
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