[openbox] focus behavior slow?

[Tim Howe]

I have a 1000MHz machine with 384M of RAM.  Also have an ATI radeon vid.

I don't think the machine is too slow.  Does it matter that I have more that 7 terms open at any on time?  It seems to happen the most with xterm windows.

--TimH

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:30:31 -0800
brett at custom-tech.net (Brett Campbell) wrote:

> > Using the following setting which I believe are default:
> 
> yep, they probably are.
> 
> > <focus>
> >   <focusNew>yes</focusNew>
> >   <followMouse>yes</followMouse>
> >   <focusDelay>0</focusDelay>
> >   <raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>
> > </focus>
> 
> i've never seen any of my machines (ranging from 75MHz to 1.6GHz) do
> this.  Now, with the 75MHz thinkpad, which had 8MB RAM, i could move the
> mouse all over the place, and the cursor wouldn't move for about 5-10
> seconds while the machine was swapping ;) (running XFree 4.3 w/ bb).
> 
> do you hear your hard drive churning away the whole time? :)
> 
> unless you have some really old or malfunctioning hardware, the focus
> will activate immediately upon the cursor entering the window.
> 
> i upgraded that old thinkpad to 40MB RAM (max) and it's much more
> friendly and accommodating to a windowing environment.
> 
> > Often as my mouse moves from one window to the next, especially with
> > overlapping windows, that the focus appears to not be able to keep up
> > with my mouse.
> 
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