With FANUC you're in safe hands. With over 25 million automation products installed worldwide, 25 locations and a Service First support network that guarantees lifetime support on all FANUC products 24/7 worldwide; you can see why FANUC is trusted by more companies than anyone else. @Vilx You are asking whether it is expensive to context switch. That question is meaningless without specifying which operating system you are talking about. It would be a bit like asking if a car is fast or a house is big. Meaningless without specifying which car or which house. – Cromulent May 8 '10 at 15:54. Cycle through recently used windows: Command+Tab switcher fails if your applications have multiple windows. With Option+Tab Contexts lets you cycle through individual windows and switch to any of them directly. Switch with search to any window: Invoke panel with keyboard shortcut and type a few characters from the application name or window. The ability to do context switching is an essential component for any multitasking OS. The same type of things that cause context switching in Linux would cause context switching in Windows as well. All a high thread count means is that the CPU will be forced to switch contexts more often to fulfill the processing requirements of the scheduler.
Contexts 3 6 1 – Fast Window Switcher Panel Drug Screen
Contexts lets you switch to windows with search. Press Control-Space (or whichever keyboard shortcut you prefer) to open the Search window. Type a few characters from an app name or window title to filter the list. Press Return to switch to the selected item.
![]() Contexts 3 6 1 – Fast Window Switcher Panel Installation
And in Contexts 3 we have taken search to a new level. Our goals were simple but ambitious: You should need as few keystrokes as possible — ideally just two for your frequently used windows; And it should be as deterministic as possible — so you can switch without even looking at the results most of the time. Here is how it works:
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Fast Search. If you want to go even faster, enable Fast Search, hold down the Fn key (or whichever modifier key you prefer1) and type a one or two character query (or a longer one if you want to). The Search window will appear with the results. Just release Fn and the selected item will come to the front. Combine this with search shortcuts and you can switch to Safari with Fn-s, Notes with Fn-n, Messages with Fn-me and so on. In two or three keystrokes, that is.
1. Contexts recognizes left & right modifier keys separately. So you can set Fast Search to use, for example, only the left Option key or only the right Option key. The other modifier key will continue to work as it does by default.
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