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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:32:30 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1019633550.561365@mired.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: overclocking and freebsd
Message-ID:  <15551.51214.565995.577553@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020419080217.M30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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In <20020419080217.M30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> typed:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:32:34AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > In <20020418070634.I30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> typed:
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:37:10PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > > The tricky part will be when the timing is warped by the window
> > > > manager. I.e., if I've got a WM set to follow the mouse and not raise
> > > > the active window, then activating a window is one action for me
> > > > (point), but two (point and click) for a windows users. On the other
> > > > hand, raising a window is easy for a windows users, because they can
> > > > point anywhere in the window, whereas I have to point at the frame. 
> > > Not if Meta-LeftClick is bound to 'raise window' anywhere in the window
> > > area. . .
> > That's still slower, because it's one point and two keyclicks vs. one
> > point and one keyclick.
> On average I'm much faster, because most of the time I'm sending windows
> to the bottom of the Z order.  It means I don't have to waste time
> minimising windows I don't need (which might explain the 17 open xterms
> at the moment <sigh>).

Yeah, but then you have to do that to get to each window, as opposed
to getting to any window with three or four keystrokes. I just keep a
few things I don't use very often iconified, and have four xterms open
now. But they're all up and visible - except for the one on the
monitor I leave turned off.

	<mike
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