On 02/08/2012 11:21 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
Allen S. Rout [2012.02.08 0921 -0500]:
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.
How long a focus delay are we talking about? When I tested, even with the excessive number of 30 windows per workspace, the focus moved between windows faster than I would have been able to move my hand back from the mouse to the keyboard. So either you are extremely fast at sweeping across with your mouse and then starting to type or there is something else in your setup which makes the delay more serious than I was able to observe.
Well, Copying a phrase from 'A' and then pasting it on B (on the other side of my screen layout) the delay approaches zero. A tenth of a second is noticable, a third of a second is irritating. I seem to be getting results which are seldom more than a second, but frequently more than half a second. Here is a snippet of xev output from my sweeping the mouse across the screen. Incidentally, I was going to paste something in my editor window when I recorded this, and missed. :) PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950262434, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950262548, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950262654, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950262766, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950262876, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x8400001, atom 0x143 (WM_STATE), time 2950271084, state PropertyNewValue - Allen S. Rout