How do I turn off Gnome Shell Activities Animations?

Solution 1:

In Gnome 3.8, just do this command to disable all animations:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false

To rollback:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations true

Solution 2:

The accepted answer does not disable animations, but only reduces the animation time to almost zero. This means the animation will still be rendered - you're just not able to recognize them.

Maxwell's answer really disables animations, but on my system (Ubuntu 14.04) the animations are enabled again after a reboot. However, there is a workaround for this problem.

Long story short, you can disable animations with these two commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.remote-display active false
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false