Torrents client kills my Internet connectivity so bad I can't even use a web-browser whilst it's on -- pages take like five minutes to load -- I often forget to turn on my torrent client. Which led me to wonder if there's a way I can launch a script on system idle?
View 1 RepliesI was messing around with Compiz today and it got me to wondering if I can create a custom command when my system goes to idle, instead of launching the screen saver. I want to start the Compiz Rain effect on system idle. is this possible?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to write a script to run motion when the computer is idle but for some reason the script I found online doesn't work. I tried to write a simple command to put some echo in a file when the screen server starts and stops but this doesn't work also. this is the script I'm using -
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#open (IN, "$cmd |");
my $cmd = "dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver',member='SessionIdleChanged'"";
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i used to download files using transmission bit torrent client. I download the torrent and once the download starts i will leave the system and check only after 4 or 5 hours later.But when i check the system again, the network connections were automatically disconnected.The download is getting stopped naturally. why my wired network connection is getting disconnected automatically if the system is idle?(ubuntu 10.10)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had noticed that my workstation (running debian testing) is having a constant load of about 0.9 (+/-0.1), even while the system is completly idle.The system starts with a normal load and then goes up to about 0.9 within a few minutes and then will stay there forever (well it can get higher, but never lower). This is the load graph after the system runs some time: URL....
I have tried everything I know to find the cultprint but there is no cpu usage and no io usage. I even have disabled the desktop and still have this problem.Also I have tried booting an older Kernel (4.1 and 3.16) with no difference in the load.Here is some information about my system:
Code: Select all» uname -a
Linux localhorst 4.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.2.3-2 (2015-10-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux.
I want to get the system idle time till a mouse move or a key press. How is it possible to get it from a char terminal running through ssh/telnet as well as a from an X-terminal session?
I'm writing a post-install script to run on the computers I'm working with. Most of it is written, but I'm a noob when it comes down to it. I'd like to know how to disable the system from showing the lockscreen after being idle. Could someone show me how to do this from the command-line? Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
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Every now and then, say with a period of one hour, the system begins accessing the hdd and doesn't stop accessing for at least 5 minutes. What can be the reason? Can it have something to do with the swap partition?
How to make the system boot faster by removing the idle time between 5s to 10s? bootchart attached. It is Ubuntu10.04LTS by the way. One more hint, the screen black out for ~4s after "Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom... Done." I don't know what is going on during that 4s, but my best guess is there is a way we can get rid of it.
Bootchart can be found here:
My hard drive all of a sudden starts to read and write all on its own for around 15 seconds at a time while at idle or while I am just browsing the net. At first I thought it was from cron running but I have that disabled.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I run top d 0.5 on my machine and I press 1 to enable the SMP View, I notice that all of the CPUs keep toggling between 100%idle and 0% idle.
The odd part is that when a CPU goes to 0.0% idle, I would expect to see one or more of the other columns peek, but they are not.
What is causing this?
Code:
I keep noticing disk activity every roughly 1 to 3 seconds even though there is "nothing" going on. Of course, I run a number of "system" and "user" application packages - Apache2, MySQL, Browsers (Opera, IceWeasel), an SMB client and server, OpenOffice 3.0RC8 being the most prominent ones. I wonder what might be the cause for this constant disk activity which happens even when none of the applications do any noticeable work at all. Is there a way to determine the process that does those disk read/writes?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy Gnome screensaver doesn't work, although it once did.
I have searched for a solution to this problem but no luck. I am running FC 11 and out-of-the-box gnome. At first the screensaver worked normally, shutting off the screen after 5 mins. Now it does not do so. I found the following command line suggestion in the forums, and it looks like it may point to a problem -- the screensaver is inactive, but how to make it active? I may be misunderstanding the term inactive, of course. Logically, the screensaver would have to be inactive if I am typing a command.
In any case, the query command shows:
Just in case the screensaver really was not running, I tried this command (which I found in another post):
But the query returns the same thing as before.
The only thing I can think of that might be an issue is that using the "appearances" background facility I added a couple dozen pictures that I thought I might use as screen background. Not long after that I discovered that my screen did not go black after 5 mins as expected. Not sure this correlation has any causal meaning, however. I then tried various things, finally returning to the plain (blue) default. That seemed to fix it for a short while, then after a couple of days, the bad or non-behavior returned -- the screensaver does not work.
(update -- I removed all the extra background pics and it makes no difference.)
My system runs all the time, but I don't want the screen to be on all the time.
I was wondering whether there is an inbuilt logging system in UNIX?
I ran and installation and the program opened up automatically but I can't find the program executable.
If I could find a log then I could locate this file.
i've gotten my fedora 12 to the point where i can run python3 scripts from command line and can call up python 2.6.2 idle with the command 'idle' from command line. what command will call up python3 (3.1.2 to be exact) idle?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to add my C program's path to the environment variable PATH. My C program called "md5". So that I can execute it from anywhere (i.e any directory). My md5 program is located at "/home/ahuq/MappingServer/md5_program". So what I did was to put: "export PATH=$PATH:/home/ahuq/MappingServer/md5_program" in the running SHELL. This only makes temporary changes and lets me run the "md5" program from anywhere temporarily.
root@ahuq-kitchen:/home/ahuq# md5 -sanis MD5 ("anis") = 38a1ffb5ccad9612d3d28d99488ca94b But I want to make this change permanent. I tried to put the line "PATH=$PATH:/home/ahuq/MappingServer/md5_program" at the end of "/home/ahuq/.bashrc" and "/home/ahuq/.profile" files. I logged out of the SHELL and
went in again. But it didn't work:
root@ahuq-kitchen:/home/ahuq# md5 -sanis
No command 'md5' found, did you mean:
Command 'cd5' from package 'cd5' (universe)
Command 'mdu' from package 'mtools' (main)
Command 'mdb' from package 'mono-debugger' (universe)
md5: command not found
Maybe I am putting the PATH statement in the wrong place of the above mentioned files. There are a lot if-else-fi structures inside those two files. Do I need to put the PATH statement inside any of those structures? Do I just logout or do I have to restart the system to make the changes active?
A 32-bit program (Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client) appears to be trying to load a library from /usr/lib even though the 32-bit library is installed in /usr/lib32:
ak@myo5a:~$ /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpnui
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
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I wondering does the evolution-alarm-notify and evolution-data-server-1.4 would remove from the system monitor or just leave them alone. I didn't want to touch them that would cause system diseaster, can you please confirm for both if say yes to remove that will be good safe.. I am running older version of Ubuntu 5.10 on my lappy.
My firefox browser takes too much memory that runs very slowest and I need to cut down the both program list above or what I need to remove some other program in the system monitor.
I used to have a program that displayed system information (cpu/ram usage, stuff like that) but the name escapes me at the moment. The key feature of this program is that it was intergrated into the desktop.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a program like peer block for ubuntu? It is an ip filter program. Here is the website to help answer questions on what type of program it is. http://www.peerblock.com/
View 6 Replies View RelatedHave Ubuntu & it was working well, but has become slow, 'greys out' on me regularly - eg. pic loses colour & nothing will respond for a few or more seconds. Also 'Ubuntu Software Centre' & "Synaptic' thingy come up with errors, saying can't install or uninstall progs. Although it seems they may do it OK despite saying they can't. Have Computer Janitor installed, but this is no longer working at all. So... is there a program or such that I can use to test/clean out the system?? For that matter, is there a program for testing hardware, as I'm not sure if it's an indication of unhealthy hard drive or such?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have downloaded DavMail and its currently living and running from my /home/user/Downloads/DavMail
in this folder is
davmail.jar
davmail.log
davmail.sh
Lib/
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I need to put davmail in a better location than downloads but am unsure where to put it, Im guessing if I seperate some of the files/folders such as lib ill have to modify the davmail.sh file.
wheres the best location to keep this or should it remain in my home folder, I was going to put this in
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/lib
But the jar count as a binary? the .sh certainly wouldnt.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and I'm running Skype 2.1 (Beta). Whenever I "x" out of the Skype program, from what I can tell it's minimizing the Skype program and not actually terminating the thread (just as it does in Windows), however when I "x" out of Skype the icon is not showing up in the system tray (but it does in Windows). So one would think that it's not running, however if I try to re-launch Skype I get an error message stating: Another Skype Instance May Exist.
I confirm this by going to System > Administration > System Monitor and sure enough, Skype is running. So if I "x" out of the program, how do I switch back to it because it's not showing up in the system tray? One last thing : Alt+Tab does not work. It will list the other programs running, but not Skype, despite the fact that it is running.
Can any of you know this system or program I ask those who know that to give us some details about it
and how i can install them
I am trying to run a simple perl program that requires getting stock price data from yahoo for just 1 ticker symbol, and it was running fine till this morning, wherein it froze and displayed the message: Out of memory!
I cleared my cache by running the following:
Code:
$sync
$sudo echo 1 |sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$sudo echo 2 |sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$sudo echo 3 |sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
but it hasn't helped.
Even Firefox has been freezing, so I basically cannot do anything on my computer.
I want to open Microsoft Icons (*.ico) and Macintosh Icons (*.icns), is there any program for that?
I can't find someone I tried Yahoo! and Google
And if I ask, is there also a converter to convert ICO, ICNS -> PNG for Linux?
My program (GTK) runs in Linux (Ubuntu) without any problem and its themes are fine but when I change my system to run just X and then my program, it runs but without any theme. How can I configure my system to use theme in X for my program?
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How can I do?
How can i remove a program from system, like MAtlab? What is the command in Konsole?
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