On 02/07/2012 06:27 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
Norbert Zeh [2012.02.07 1657 -0400]:
Alright. Tested with 4 monitors, 30 windows per monitor, no decoration. Indeed, there is a lag in focus switching, but it is not unbearable. [...]
So I don't want to go down a blind alley here: I'm not suggesting that 30 terminals, each 2 characters wide, is a rational work environment. :) My tossing 20-30 terminals on a screen was a way to exacerbate the problem so it was easy to measure. The Real Problem is that I can sweep my mouse pointer across my desktop, to (for instance) move from the web browser to an editor, start typing, and get my input lost. I haven't yet gotten bits distributed over other windows, but I fear that. Some semi-random set of keystrokes accidentally dropped in an interstitial root window. *shudder*. The most common case of this is when I copy something to the cut buffer, and go 'somewhere else' to paste it. At the moment, I've added to my mental process a "pause and wait for the G- D- border to turn red". Otherwise things get pasted into nowhere. That's a serious interruption of flow. - Allen S. Rout