Allen S. Rout [2012.02.08 0921 -0500]:
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.
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. Cheers, Norbert