[openbox] Wonderful Window Manager

[Thomas Polliard]

As I said I just start typing even if the window hasn't raised so the 
time it takes is almost no consequence. Well 10 seconds has seemed to 
work :)

Ok, Thats what I needed to know.

Thanks for your time,

Thomas

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Thomas Polliard wrote:
>
>> Sorry bout the long sentence. Normally, I will be pasting to multiple 
>> windows because I didn't have the foresight to startup a distributed 
>> shell or some such.
>> A common situation is to have 10-15 "terms" opened at a time where I 
>> want to see the output but they overlap so that if they raise in the 
>> wrong order I get a screen full of old commands.  I might need to 
>> change a part of the command Im pasting but dont want to raise the 
>> window as I pass through the terms. In my OLD window manager I had 
>> raise delay set to 10 seconds but the focus follows mouse with no 
>> delay (the smallest it would provide usually 1 millisecond).  That 
>> provides a way to paste commands that I need duplicated across all my 
>> "terms" and allows me to change the command usually before the window 
>> raises.  When I do have it raise I don't mind waiting because I can 
>> already start typing before the window has come up.
>>
>> This is harder to explain then I thought. Sorry....
>
> Hm, that's quite a specialized use case, i don't think it warrants the 
> added code complexity. And if you do want to raise a window, do you 
> really sit around for 10 seconds and wait for it?
>
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson