Well, they really did a nice job with Xfce 4.6… NOT!
I just upgraded it to it today on Debian, and right off the bat am seeing the following problems:
- Sloppy focus is implemented incorrectly, AGAIN. It was never true sloppy-focus in the prior release, since you could override the window focus by using Alt+Tab, and run into a situation where the mouse pointer is hovering over a window, yet it doesn't have focus. Now, they still have that problem, plus the slow transferring of focus between windows, with the mouse. Even with the "delay before window receives focus" set to the shortest setting, there is still a very noticable delay, and it drives me nuts.
- Edge resistance is not very resistant, anymore. Before, I could get within 10-12 pixels and a window would "snap" to another. Now, it seems that this has decreased a bit, and there isn't a way of changing it, that I can see.
- All the default keybindings have changed! I got used to the default keybindings on 4.4, and now most of them have been changed, and some are gone. Specifically, the horizontal and vertical maximization is gone, and the prior keybindings are now tied to resize and stick. Maximize has changed, too. What's the deal? Now I'm going to have to either get used to the new keybindings, or change them all to reflect what's in the 4.4 version.
- Xfwm4 has some other issues, too, as VMware Workstation doesn't redraw at all, after going full-screen.
Ugh! I guess I could downgrade, but why bother, if I'm going to eventually have to deal with this when 4.4 is obsolete and removed?
Anyone else notice similar issues? I really just wish sloppy focus would work the way it does in 4Dwm. None of this Alt+Tab nonsense! Maybe I am just too old-school.
I agree (found you by googling the issue)... the minimum delay for mouse focus makes it feel really sluggish. And I had to redo all the keybindings.
How would you expect alt+tab to work? Warp the pointer to the raised window? (guess I haven't used the old-school WMs enough...)
Also I don't like the new session manager with its gnome-style respawning behavior, though maybe that's just something to get used to.
Annoyances aside it's still my favorite "modern" window manager by far.