{"id":210,"date":"2012-01-29T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2012-01-29T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T20:58:03","slug":"unity-sucks-at-the-one-thing-i-need-most-from-a-desktop-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/29\/unity-sucks-at-the-one-thing-i-need-most-from-a-desktop-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity sucks at the one thing I need most from a desktop environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I switched from Ubuntu&#8217;s default Unity desktop to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfce.org\/\">Xfce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because hitting Alt-Tab to cycle through windows takes about a 1\/4 sec for Unity to register. I cycle through windows literally hundreds of times a day. And that small but perceptible pause was driving me completely bonkers. Mind you, this is on my brand spanking new Core i5 laptop. Unacceptable!<\/p>\n<p>What good are all the cute visual effects, glowing icons, and retracting launcher bars if Unity can&#8217;t smoothly perform the ONE function that defines what a desktop environment is supposed to be for: managing my application windows?!<\/p>\n<p>In Xfce, Alt-Tab responds immediately.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the small plus that the laptop battery seems to last a bit longer running Xfce than Unity. It&#8217;s not perfect, of course. Switching to and from an external display causes some issues. And I&#8217;d like a better volume control widget in the panel. But to me, these are minor annoyances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I switched from Ubuntu&#8217;s default Unity desktop to Xfce. Why? Because hitting Alt-Tab to cycle through windows takes about a 1\/4 sec for Unity to register. I cycle through windows literally hundreds of times a day. And that small but perceptible pause was driving me completely bonkers. Mind you, this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/29\/unity-sucks-at-the-one-thing-i-need-most-from-a-desktop-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unity sucks at the one thing I need most from a desktop environment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}