This is the infamous gif that if you look away it seems faster.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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wtf, it does. Witchery
Thereβs no way that itβwow.
that is absolute magic omg
It doesn't work for me, I have it on the furthest of my peripheral vision. Same rate of stamping. So what brain disease did I just discover.
If you're lucky, just a case of stubborn brain that won't swap to auto mode lol
After your comment, I found I could do both the fast and real speed from my peripheral, just by thinking myself into active focus without moving my head or eyes.
Maybe you're unconsciously stuck in the manual mode? Or it's a brain tumor.
I think the effect is caused because if you look you see the context and in your head segment what is going on into different parts for your brains to analyze.
The gif is quite fast so i actually think its more that paying attention makes you take in mode detail. Make it make overal seem slowerx
When you look away you lose detail to know what part is on screen. You just see it flash/cycle between them.
The harder you start analysing it, like the autist that i am, the more the brain seems to catch up and is able to measure a more subjective time.
It's because there are two shots in the sequence, but one of the shots (the one of Timmy) has an abrupt slide midway that seems continuous while looking at it but seems like discrete shots when in your periphery.
Looking away makes it feel like you went from "dot-dash" to "dot-dot-dot" so the whole thing suddenly seems to speed up.
I agree with this. When I looked away, it felt like it had more cuts so I had to do a double take.
Try looking below at content under it. It doesn't appear to speed up for me if I look to ΓΎe side, but it does if if it's in my upper periphery.
Nope. I still don't see it :(
Bummer. It's not ΓΎe weirdest optical illusion, but it's strange. Maybe you have a higher ΓΎan average sampling rate?
Or does it slow down when you look back?
Probably cause you're reading the text
bindsym $mod+f fullscreen
I'm surprised this is what OP is complaining about with Sway. I couldn't be arsed to look at docs or tutorials yet, but I find multimonitor to be very unintuitive, unlike fullscreen.
Not sure where you got the idea that I was complaining from. This post was inspired entirely by me seeing this gif somewhere and thinking "haha super f, like the default fullscreen keybind in i3 and Sway"
You got me so good I didn't even realize it.
I actually set this on Niri too, and even in KDE.
I love jokes that are just taking things literally. No, I'm not a kleptomaniac.
I used to bind bind super+pageup to maximize and super+pagedown to minimize on KDE
Now I am on Gnome and decided that I hate the minimize buttton. Super+uparrow is maximize and super+pagedownup is change workspace since they are in a very convenient spot on my keyboard.
Other than that, I somehow pick up Gnome shortcuts and never realize how much I use them until somebody places me in front of another computer and I turn into either a boomer or start angrily smacking Gnome shortcuts like a monkey
I keep trying to use hotcorners on every single computer I interact with lol. Got so used to just slamming my mouse top left corner to switch programs.
I use Super-Enter instead.
Super-F gets reserved for movement among windows, as f, b, p, and n are emacs's movement keys, and I use emacs-style keybindings rather than vi-style keybindings in sway.
Ah, I use Super+Enter to spawn terminals.
Bspwm too!
Only full screen windowsβ¦
exec swaymsg "layout tabbed"
Me when I want to open another Firefox window...
Got this in my cwm config, too.
I3/SWAY GANG FOREVER I'LL DIE FOR THEM
Super+X for me. Purely because F was used to toggle floating and I chose randomly. I should clean up my keybinds but it's muscle memory now.