Aqua customisation for sparing resources ?

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tinmar

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Hello everyone :)

I am running OSX 10.2 on a powermac G3 beige, and it's really sluggish.
I'd like to know if there are ways to block some nice-looking but very resource-consuming UI features such as window drop-shadows, or font smoothing (for ALL fonts not just fonts smaller than size 12 as general prferences allow), or other purely cosmetic things, so i can actually work on my outdated machine ;p

Thanks in advance
 
erm ..
ATI Rage Pro i think

As for Tinkertool, i am using it, but the newest version doesn't allow a user to turn font anti aliasing off
 
Nevermind :)

Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required.
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to change the font size for antialiasing:

defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 96

Then antialiasing is off for 96 point or smaller fonts - that ought to be plenty big...

There's a little freeware app called ShadowKiller, you should be able to find it on versiontracker. Better check that it works in 10.2 (I assume that's what you're runnint). I tried it in 10.1.something, it made window dragging a bit faster, but I found the shadows actually do make it considerably easier to distinguish windows, now that many windows have no borders.

The big CPU eater is window transparency, I believe. I'm not sure if you can turn off 'translucent' toolbars for background windows.
 
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