It's not possible to disable compositing in elementary OS. If you feel like you need to disable compositing, your computer is probably much too old to be running elementary OS.
Disabling animations could have some impact on performance.
You can disable window animations under System Settings > Universal Access > General. This includes the animations for opening, close, and resizing windows.
You can disable in-app animations through gsettings
with the Terminal command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false
You can re-enable in-app animations by setting the key to true
instead of false
:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations true
Bear in mind that in-app animations are not exposed in System Settings because it may cause undesirable behavior. Proceed at your own risk. Your mileage may vary.
I really like the look of Elementary OS
~ The look you like will thus be disabled. - eOS may be too heavy. Better add/replace some features in Lubuntu to make it more eOS-like. Take a look at Project eLubuntu (trying to give an Unity-eOS look to LXDE) and at a MacOS theme for Lubuntu that is not far from eOS look. - You can chose to install Plank instead of Cairo. – user170 Mar 30 '16 at 10:43