[openbox] Desktop switching delay

Anthony Thyssen A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au
Wed Oct 19 02:40:00 EDT 2011


On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:47 +1100
Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:
| After toying around with some of GNOME 3's new features, I've started 
| using dynamic desktops to organise my work a lot more. One thing I've 
| noticed, and I was wondering if anyone could confirm it, is that when 
| switching between windows on different desktops, sometimes the window 
| gets flagged as URGENT but the desktop isn't switched.
| 
| For example, I have a Main workspace and a IM/Mail workspace. 
| Thunderbird sits on the IM/Mail one, and when switching from urxvt 
| [Main] to Thunderbird [IM/Mail], Thunderbird will flash in the window 
| list on Xfce4-panel, but urxvt will keep the focus, and so I have to 
| click on the icon in the panel to focus Thunderbird.
| 
| (This doesn't occur all the time, only occasionally, and if it's a 
| mistake in my configuration settings I would have thought that it'd 
| occur all the time.)
| 
I have seen this when some action causes a window to appear (map)
on one of the other desktops.  Looks to me the 'flash' simply means
something happened, but it happened on another desktop (not visible).




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