On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 05:12:48PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 19:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 07:07:38PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
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Well, that's the limit of my offerings. I'm still trying to find the thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the mouse hovered over it for X seconds. With C6 I can't find it anymore and it switches way too fast.
in C6 it's in SYSTEM | PREFERENCES | WINDOWS there's a slider titled "interval before raising".
LoL! I just found it while trying to find out where another distasteful C6.6 update effect was started.
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In a nutshell, after I would terminate Firefox as part of my normal log off process, there would be another instance of Firefox left hanging around with a ppid of 1 (so it's daemonized", or as I prefer "demonized" ;-)) and using all the CPU it could get (97%-99% of a 6 core AMD in my desktop) while no Firefox windows were open. Figuring it might be saving stuff I checked back many minutes later on many days and cycles and it was always there. Moreover, when normally using Firefox I'd seen 103%, 104% CPU usage etc.
I commonly also find a "stray" firefox running after stopping firefox, and it isn't using a window either. it's a nuisance because, when there's a firefox update and it wants to restart the browser, it can't because there's that darn "stray" one hanging around.
like you, I have no idea where it comes from or why it's there, nor what it's doing, either.
I commented out the entries that start it in Xclients and made a patch. If I see no ill effects I'll leave it in place, otherwise back to digging as to why it's there.
please let me know how it goes, I may want to investigate doing the same.
I'll tell ya, those folks keep going the way they are and every Windows box on the planet will be able to run circles around many of these Linux distros.
Bill
Thanks!
Fred