In February, I wrote about motion-sickness problems I was experiencing because of OS X Lion. The full-screen transitions on my 27-inch iMac were making me dizzy, meaning I had to stop using them. A couple of weeks ago, I was shown ReSpaceApp, which looked like it could be a solution. The app is now called TotalSpaces and has joined Binary Age. It’s also had an update that brings precisely the functionality that I was hoping for. If you are having the same problems I was, here’s how to set up the app.

Install, then select Preferences from the app’s menu-bar icon. Under Layout, click the top-left grid (thereby reducing the number of desktops to just one) and check ‘Navigate right to full screen desktops’.

Under Transitions, uncheck ‘Use transitions’.

Under Hotkeys, you can define system-wide shortcuts for moving ‘left’ and ‘right’ between your desktop and full-screen apps.

Note that TotalSpaces doesn’t affect transition animations elsewhere—apps still ‘morph’ into full-screen, for example. However, for switching between apps, it does exactly what I needed, meaning I can finally start using full-screen apps in OS X, nine months after the OS first arrived.