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I have the opposite problem. If I open too many Windows, the Windows window manager starts glitching out. When I open an app, it doesn't always come to the fron

by andai 4y ago

I have the opposite problem. If I open too many Windows, the Windows window manager starts glitching out. When I open an app, it doesn't always come to the front and I have to go alt-tab through dozens of windows to find it. (Sometimes it ends up at the bottom, so alt-shift-tab switches to it... but sometimes it ends up in the middle...) Also if I open too many windows, opening Windows explorer takes 1-2 or more seconds. Something about exhausting GDI handles?

happymellon 4y ago
How many are we talking about here, I'm curious about how many windows is too many for Windows? I don't often have more than 30 open, and at that point I start thinking it's excessive and that I should probably tidy up to make sure I actually complete a task rather than get distracted.
- andai 4y ago
  Asked ChatGPT to write me a script to count the open windows :) I have 164. Although I have quite a bit of RAM left at the moment. The OS getting sluggish is usually what prompts me to close a few open apps. So having lots of RAM is bad for my productivity... The annoying part is just that Windows explorer gets really sluggish -- to a comical degree. For example, I'll do a file operation (copy, rename etc) and it'll take that same explorer Window 5 seconds to register the operation that it itself performed. Meanwhile, Sublime Text open in the background detects it within miliseconds.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    What you're doing with them ? Even on browser tabs I usually (I have vertical tabs addon so it is on the side of the screen) stop when I have full tabbar.
prmoustache 4y ago
Why are you still relying on alt+tab in 2023? I haven't touched a windows for more than 5 minutes in a long time, aren't there a function to show all windows like in most Linux DE and Mac OS ?
- andai 4y ago
  Real question is why I'm still using Windows ;) I just looked it up, there's a thing called Task View (Win+Tab) which is this big scrolling view of open window thumbnails. Curiously, Alt+Tab itself is very slow (half a second of lag?) but if I kill explorer.exe I get a different Alt+Tab screen which is extremely responsive. (And Win+Tab is, of course, much slower than even the slow Alt+Tab...) I wish I could just leave explore.exe killed, but it makes it a bit harder to do things. Maybe I should do that, to force me to program my own alternatives in Python. (They'd still be faster than what Microsoft made...)
- pmontra 4y ago
  I disable that functionality on Gnome. Alt-tab to a terminal and alt-tab back to the editor is much faster that displaying all windows and clicking on the one I want to go to. Even two or three alt-tabs are faster than that. Furthermore alt-tab don't move the screen. It only raises a window on top of the other. Everything is still. The Gnome way is to move everything on the screen and move it back to the original place. I don't suffer from motion sickness but windows should stay put where I placed them.
ilyt 4y ago
I still have no fucking idea how alt-tab logic works in windows. It's definitely not in order of recency... Search function in window names would also be nice... I swear that shit haven't progressed in windows since '95

by andai 4y ago

happymellon 4y ago

How many are we talking about here, I'm curious about how many windows is too many for Windows? I don't often have more than 30 open, and at that point I start thinking it's excessive and that I should probably tidy up to make sure I actually complete a task rather than get distracted.

andai 4y ago
Asked ChatGPT to write me a script to count the open windows :) I have 164. Although I have quite a bit of RAM left at the moment. The OS getting sluggish is usually what prompts me to close a few open apps. So having lots of RAM is bad for my productivity... The annoying part is just that Windows explorer gets really sluggish -- to a comical degree. For example, I'll do a file operation (copy, rename etc) and it'll take that same explorer Window 5 seconds to register the operation that it itself performed. Meanwhile, Sublime Text open in the background detects it within miliseconds.
- ilyt 4y ago
  What you're doing with them ? Even on browser tabs I usually (I have vertical tabs addon so it is on the side of the screen) stop when I have full tabbar.

prmoustache 4y ago

Why are you still relying on alt+tab in 2023? I haven't touched a windows for more than 5 minutes in a long time, aren't there a function to show all windows like in most Linux DE and Mac OS ?

andai 4y ago
Real question is why I'm still using Windows ;) I just looked it up, there's a thing called Task View (Win+Tab) which is this big scrolling view of open window thumbnails. Curiously, Alt+Tab itself is very slow (half a second of lag?) but if I kill explorer.exe I get a different Alt+Tab screen which is extremely responsive. (And Win+Tab is, of course, much slower than even the slow Alt+Tab...) I wish I could just leave explore.exe killed, but it makes it a bit harder to do things. Maybe I should do that, to force me to program my own alternatives in Python. (They'd still be faster than what Microsoft made...)
pmontra 4y ago
I disable that functionality on Gnome. Alt-tab to a terminal and alt-tab back to the editor is much faster that displaying all windows and clicking on the one I want to go to. Even two or three alt-tabs are faster than that. Furthermore alt-tab don't move the screen. It only raises a window on top of the other. Everything is still. The Gnome way is to move everything on the screen and move it back to the original place. I don't suffer from motion sickness but windows should stay put where I placed them.

ilyt 4y ago

I still have no fucking idea how alt-tab logic works in windows. It's definitely not in order of recency... Search function in window names would also be nice... I swear that shit haven't progressed in windows since '95