Decrease delay of alt-tab

G_A · 09-03-2016, 12:28 PM

Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to decrease the "show up" delay of the alt-tab switcher, Debian 8.5.

I found this solution:

http://www.ceu-talk.com/s/QnNOX52Y/h...-im-doing.html

Code:

/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/altTab.js

Almost at the beginning of the file, is this line

const POPUP_DELAY_TIMEOUT = 150; // milliseconds

However, I cannot find the file in my Debian 8.5, closest I get is:

Code:

 ls -l /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/alternate-tab\@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4064 Sep  3 13:15 convenience.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2087 Sep  3 13:14 extension.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  645 Nov 30  2014 metadata.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2945 Sep  3 13:14 prefs.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   50 Nov 30  2014 stylesheet.css

But, when adding that line to any of the files there, then restarting GNOME - no go.
Any advice is welcome,
thank you.

WRox · 09-05-2016, 07:17 AM

I find more and more some of these settings locations have been changing in Debian and a lot of what one finds on the web is no longer up to date or it no longer applies to Debian. I don't use gnome, but suspect there may be some sort of graphical settings panel that may do the trick.

In KDE, with Jessie, if you look in the application menu you will find a Settings entry and a
Settings Manager and in that a Windows Manager with a "focus" tab. (In Strech there are similar entries).

That has a tick box to "automatically switch to a newly created window" and a bunch of other tabs including slider bars to change delays on the switch etc.

ondoho · 09-05-2016, 12:39 PM

try

Code:

sudo find / -name altTab.js

or

Code:

sudo find / -name '*.js' -exec grep POPUP_DELAY_TIMEOUT {} \;

even if you find it, it would be overwritten on updates.

this should be configurable in your $HOME somewhere.

G_A · 09-06-2016, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WRox

I find more and more some of these settings locations have been changing in Debian and a lot of what one finds on the web is no longer up to date or it no longer applies to Debian. I don't use gnome, but suspect there may be some sort of graphical settings panel that may do the trick.

In KDE, with Jessie, if you look in the application menu you will find a Settings entry and a
Settings Manager and in that a Windows Manager with a "focus" tab. (In Strech there are similar entries).

That has a tick box to "automatically switch to a newly created window" and a bunch of other tabs including slider bars to change delays on the switch etc.

There is a GNOME extension in charge of the alt-tab behavior, however delay values are not available there.

In Unity, a delay value can be set in compiz-config, I'm not sure how compatible is compiz-config with GNOME, so I'm trying to avoid mixing in the two.

G_A · 09-06-2016, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

try

Code:

sudo find / -name altTab.js

or

Code:

sudo find / -name '*.js' -exec grep POPUP_DELAY_TIMEOUT {} \;

even if you find it, it would be overwritten on updates.

this should be configurable in your $HOME somewhere.

Yup, tried that, too. There is no such file on the "/" file system.

ondoho · 09-07-2016, 01:35 PM

sorry for the rant, but...

i am reading this so often, how on unity even the simplest configuration options just don't exist anymore.
what are they thinking?