Allen S. Rout [2012.04.17 1407 -0400]:
On 04/17/2012 01:23 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
Well, actually that never happened to me. From the user's point of view, focus switching is snappy unless I increase the number of windows to an unreasonable 100+.
..? I've currently got 26 workspaces, some of which only have one window, but many of which have 4 or more. I'm probably going to have upwards of 40 before my count really stabilizes. Do you really think that's simply "unreasonable" ?
The thought that someone at the window-manager level ought to be saying "oh, it's simply unreasonable to do more than <X>" with other than stark technical reasons... well, it raises my hackles something fierce.
The number of workspaces should have no effect on this, as I would think that invisible workspaces cause no traffic to the X server. If they do, now *that* would be something even more important to fix. So what I was referring to was the number of mapped (visible) windows. Once I get to tiling 100+ windows even on 4 screens, none of them is usable any more because it shows too little information, except maybe if I tile them to have an Expose-like preview of all my windows and then maximize each window in turn when I actually want to do some work in it. Thus, I would consider 100+ simultaneously mapped windows unreasonable. In the end, though, what I consider reasonable or not is unimportant. The point remains that a simple focus switch should not cause a major spike in CPU usage. Cheers, Norbert