Change window animations in Ubuntu 16.04 without additional tools

Question

How can I change the window animations (minimize and restore) in Ubuntu 16.04 using command line only?

Answer 1

Use one of the following commands to change the minimize and restore/unminimize animation, respectively:

gsettings set org.compiz.animation:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/animation/ minimize-effects [\'animation:NEWANIMATION\']
gsettings set org.compiz.animation:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/animation/ unminimize-effects [\'animation:NEWANIMATION\']

And replace NEWANIMATION by one of the following strings:

None
Random
Curved Fold
Fade
Glide 1
Glide 2
Horizontal Folds
Magic Lamp
Magic Lamp Wavy
Sidekick
Zoom

It seems like an invalid string is equivalent to None. The default value for minimize-effects is Zoom, for unminimize-effects it's Glide 2.

I extracted this information from the file UnityTweakTool/section/windowmanager.py from the Unity Tweak Tool source code.