[Clfswm-devel] Pain caused by daily use.

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Hi there Philippe and folks;

I'm reporting on my daily use of CLFSWM, on which I have two major
griefs and one minor. Any help on these are very welcome.

1. This is the slowest WM I've ever used.  After some hours of use,
switching between two windows can take up to 8 seconds on my arguably
modest laptop, and 5 seconds on a quad core "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470
CPU @ 3.20GHz".  This is crazy.  When I get lost in my window tree, —
and that still happens quite a lot since lots of times I just avoid
creating a tree to not wait minutes to go from windows to windows —
I'm in pain and sadness.  As when you burn bread in a toaster.  Oh the
sour pain.  What can I do?  (I tried nicing it.)

2.  I rely on the popup console for quite a few background things
(music, ssh proxy, ...).  This has two main bugs.  First, when it
takes more than 4 seconds to pop up, the focus is not put on the
console, but rather stays on the background window.  Quickly removing
and repopping the window usually assures that it displays quickly
enough to get focused.  It thus takes me a good 10 seconds and some
frustration to just pause the music.  Second, when there is more than
one window on the screen, I have to be focused on a specific one for
the console to even have a chance to get the focus.

3.  When CLFSWM is started, NumLock is off.  If I switch NumLock on,
then the Mod key does not respond the CLFSWM way (even the mouse does
not do all clfswm related commands).  Same goes with CapsLock.

Thanks for your help!

M.