RE: [Usability] window manager configuration

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 14:40, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Tom Musgrove wrote:
> 
> > It would be really useful if those who use some of the obscure features
> > would document why they are valuable.
> >
> > Thus we could at the least document why it should be included.
> 
> As for the FFM delay I mentioned: with immedeate FFM the display gets very
> "flickery" if you have lots of windows open and move the mouse to the
> other side of the screen and all windows the pointer happens to move over
> are focused at once.
> 
> With delayed FFM, the pointer is already somewhere else by the time the
> delay would have expired, when the user wanted to point at something
> elsewhere on the display. This results in a more calm "image" of the
> display.
> 
> (sorry I can't find all the right English words for the concepts I want
> to describe..)

You seem to be doing okay. Makes sense to me, anyway. :)

Out of curiosity, are you using auto-raise? Auto-raise with no delay
gets *really* "flickery".