Ubuntu :: SWR: Finding App To Pause/stop Apps Ala Xkill?
Oct 20, 2010
Is there any app that allows the user to pause/stop apps in a way like xkill? My notebook cpu is a crappy CeleronM from 3 years back. So sometimes I want to just devote all my attention to one app or want to stop some apps from sucking up juices. I don't want to tweak with the nice level manually nor go through sys mon.
XKill I have configured xkill with a hotkey. That way, I press the hotkey, and the cursor turns to a 'X' cross, and I click on the app that I want to kill (usually a hung app). This means I can avoid the console and the system monitor app.
XStop / XPause? Can I do the same for pausing or stopping apps? Bind it to a hotkey and a 'X' cross appear for the cursor, and I can pause apps? Ideally, I should be able to unpause it in similar way.
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Jun 3, 2010
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Jan 29, 2010
For some reason, Gnome keeps opening some programs that I frequently use (Gedit, gnome-terminal, and a document viewer) at startup.I have disabled the"remember my open programs" option from the Preferences menu and it still happens!
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Mar 14, 2010
ive installed adobe AIR on my ubuntu karmic x64 distro as per the instructions on adobe's website, but whenever an adobe air app launches it prompts me for a password. I remember (before gnome-keyring-manager was replaced with seahorse) I found a way around it, but i gather that gnome-keyring-manager has been replaced now
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Jun 30, 2010
I have found a couple of posts complaining about this problem but none offering solutions. In a nutshell, I want to prevent ALL programs from creating new windows that steal the keyboard focus away from whatever window I was just using. The most common offender is Synaptic when running updates/installs. I will be typing an email, playing a game, whatever, and all of a sudden a new window will pop up, steal focus, and if I'm not paying enough attention, whatever I'm typing will interact with it and cancel something or say yes to something before I even realize it. Another really bad offender is Firefox with the dialogs to accept cookies or entering/leaving a secure website. I still want all of those dialog boxes to appear but I don't want them to automatically steal focus from my other applications. Another user suggested having them blink in the task bar and I like that well enough if it is possible.
Is there a way to lock the focus to the active program/window unless the end user switches it away (i.e. no stealing)?
One post said something about window rules but gave no details. A lot of posts talk about the mouse cursor position selecting the window option (which I do not want and would not fix this problem anyway). One post said it was fixed in Feisty (guess it came back...)
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May 23, 2010
An example of S5 database file: [URL] Can a file read/write such format (no psiconv!!) ?
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Jul 30, 2011
Hey folks. I'm not sure how to describe this properly but periodically Kubuntu 11.04 will stop responding to my mouse and keyboard EXCEPT that Plasma, or what I assume is Plasma, still responds to mouse events. I can launch and exit the desktop cube and desktop grid but can't access my panels or any application controls. The only fix I've found is to do a hard power cycle.
Does this behavior ring any bells for anyone? This is the last hurdle I've got between me and using Kubuntu 11.04 full time on my Samsung RV515.
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Dec 13, 2010
So I created a shortcut for xkill and I entered it and clicked on my desktop. Now whenever I boot up Ubuntu, I just get a terminal prompt. No GUI at all. What should I do? By the way, I'm running 10.10.
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May 15, 2010
I accidentally performed the 'xkill' command on my desktop. All of my icons disappeared and I cant right click or left click on it.The task bar is still there and working. When i go to Places > Desktop, my items are there in the folder.
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May 16, 2011
I am currently using xmodmap for remapping keys like Caps Lock on my keyboard.However, my keyboard has a bunch of keys on the top that are rarely used (Multimedia keyboard with buttons like Internet, Music, Next song, Mute etc)I want to remap these keys to specific commands (Not keys).
For example: Pressing the Internet button should fire up my Firefox (/usr/bin/firefox)(which happens only in Windows for me)Also I need to map a specific button to xkill.
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Apr 30, 2011
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Jul 23, 2010
I'm using Git to get my self an enourmous (2.5 gig) repository. Is there anyway I can PAUSE it?
OR is there anyway I can "half" download it, and keep what I have?
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Feb 1, 2010
Is there a way to pause installations/updates? If there is not, would it be possible to implement that?It seems these days that installations through synaptic seem to take ages to download files. While downloading the files, ubuntu will not let you run any other package manager. So if I am updating my system or installing several programs through synaptic, I am unable to install anything else. For example a deb file ive downloaded, or i would like to install a single program while all these other files download.
I can understand not being able to install multiple things at once, but why is it not possible to install things while it downloads the files? Sometimes it days several hours/days to download the files.
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Apr 21, 2010
Can I Remove Pause in BitTorrent?
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May 3, 2010
I'm using a MacBook 2.1 with Lucid.
After i hit Enter in GRUB, there is a message on top of the screen saying "booting up", and it stays there for 20 to 30 seconds. Then everything proceeds normally. I think i caught a message saying that something couldn't be found, but it flashed too rapidly.
Here is an extract of my dmesg. I'm assuming the part between [] is timestamps, and it takes about 40 seconds to go from GRUB to the Login screen, so it fits. Nothing is happening during 32 seconds.
Code:
[ 2.690053] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 2.894315] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 35.053835] udev: starting version 151
[ 35.059728] Adding 1999992k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1999992k
[Code]....
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Dec 7, 2010
is it possible to pause the downloading from terminal.n how can i resume from same status.
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Jan 19, 2011
what i need to do is to be able to place a command to slow down the sequence of commands in an Ubuntu script.
normally, the system will attempt to execute them all as fast as it can, but i need to be able to specify short pauses between commands
anyone know of a useful command to do this?
btw, the "sleep" command i saw somewhere hasn't quite worked in my scripts for some reason.
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Oct 17, 2010
My system after installing Ubuntu 10.04 has an annoying 30 second pause during the boot process. It comes after BIOS checks and before the splash screen, the monitor is just black with a flashing cursor. The system has two IDE drives (/boot and /home) and a SCSI drive (/). There is a SCSI MO drive on it's own controller.
Partial lspci:
01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892B U160/m (rev 02)
01:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 23)
I attached a clip from bootchart and a boot log file.
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Apr 4, 2010
I have a task that I need to let run while I'm away from the computer. It's very CPU intensive and I've even had to throttle down my processor to 3GHz to keep it from overheating. I'm using a combination of GNOME Sensors App and CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor to control the overheating problem. I have the sensors app set to alarm and "killall" at 61 Degrees Celsius. The sensors app has an option where you can enter a command that it will run for you. All I need is to know what command to run that can pause this task. So later I can resume it.
I know it can be done. System Monitor has an option to "stop" a task. It also has "continue". This is how I've been doing it while I'm at the computer. So if anyone knows what the commands are that System Monitor uses, that would be a huge help. By the way, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with all current updates.
NOTE: For anyone who is about to flame me for having a computer that overheats and wants to tell me that this is the problem I should be after. It only overheats during this process. Not for any games or compiling or rendering or encoding. Nothing else. I have even bought a new heatsink and fan. I have redone the thermal compound on the Processor. My processor usually runs at idle around 36-39 Celcius and under normal load around 47-53 Celsius.
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Dec 11, 2010
First off I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and I use Amarok as my main media player. My question is this: I have hot keys for forwards skip, play, pause and backwards skip on my laptop and I was wondering how I set them to work for Amarok.
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Jan 7, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu for the first time, and I installed sucessfully World of Warcraft, but I'm noticing some networking issues where my whole network connection seems to pause for about 5-10 seconds at a time, which I finally realized when I played WoW. So i was curious where the settings are that I can change to possible eliminate that, or what others have done to increase their network throughput on their cards.
I'm running Unbuntu 9.10 64bit with the latest version of Wine from the Synaptic Package Manager. The router is a LinksysWRT54G3G-ST and my wireless network card I think is something made from MSI I don't see where to find out what drivers are installed on it I'm probably just looking in the wrong place or I'd give more information on the card.
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Oct 22, 2010
This problem has occurred over a few years and with a number of Gnome distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora, and it just won't go away. I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 / Gnome. Almost immediately, windows that opened would grey out and temporarily freeze. The mouse can still move, most of the time. The greying of windows can happen frequently or not a all for a while. The freezing can last a few seconds or many. This inconsistency makes it difficult for me to figure out what is triggering this problem. I don't know if it is hardware related, either.
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May 17, 2011
I need to run a script that I build to build a word list. Essentially what it does is run through a base list and expands that into billions of words. This way I can keep a small dictionary file and a script to expand it into a larger file (about 500 gigs). This script should take anywhere from 12-14 days to run and on my last day the power went out at my house. Is there anyway I can run this again with a fail over system? I know a battery back up is an ideal addition to my home server but if the power is out for an hour it wouldn't have made a difference. Also if I had the ability to pause the script do a reboot and resume it again that would be amazing.
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Feb 17, 2010
I updated to the newest kernel today ( 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64 ) via software updates and noticed there is a 10 second pause just after the grub screen goes away and before plymouth comes up. This never happened with the previous kernel. Anyone notice this?
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Dec 6, 2010
Sometimes I type 'sudo su - user' in linux and then realise I'm typing it from an application account rather than a user account. I want to ctrl+c to abort the password entry. When I do this, it always freezes for a couple of seconds before it aborts the process and returns me to the shell.
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Jan 22, 2010
how to send any pause process into running condition from one terminal to other terminal in linux!
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Feb 11, 2010
i am trying to configure my NIC to support pause frames(rx on tx on)but it returns error:
ethtool -a eth0 returns error : Operation not supported I need to enable pause settings so as to make my point to point link lossless
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Apr 7, 2011
As you already know there's a command in the "BATCH" language named pause which causes the program to get any random character and then continues the scripts (which is mostly used to keepscript running and preventing it to do its work and close the command prompt).Something like the "getch".Is there anything similar to this at bash?IMPORTANT NOTE: I don't want my script to stay opened, I want it to get a character (without hitting enter) and continue executing the rest of the script so please don't reply "Tick the keep the terminal opened option" or "Use read"
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Aug 25, 2011
If i compile my.tex file using the command:latex my.tex I am getting this error:! LaTeX Error: File `pause.sty' not found.Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
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Jan 2, 2010
I just got F12 installed on my laptop and so far it was a breeze! Thanks to leigh for the fantastic nvidia and compiz installation tips, and to bbfuller for getting the BroadCom wireless working.I do notice, however, that when I press the F button (KDE) there is about a 20-30 second pause before the window pops up. I see the same thing when I start a terminal window.
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