[techtalk] Gnome and window managers

joey tsai joeytsai at cc.gatech.edu
Sat May 27 01:45:08 EST 2000


> Kill off those little gnome-* processes one at a time and see what goes
> away.  This usually isn't fatal.  You can restart them from an xterm and
> be back where you started.  Killing off gnome-session will log you out,
> though :-)

> If you're not happy about killing things, stop them with 'kill -STOP', do
> a screen refresh and see what doesn't repaint itself.  And then 'kill
> -CONT' them when you want them back in the land of the living.

If you should decide and use this method of watching processes to figure
out what does what, you might as well install gtop.  As you may have
guessed, it's a gnome version of top.  Plus, right click on a process and
you can send all the signals you want to it (including STOP/CONT).


	// jt






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