On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Prem Vilas Fortran Rara wrote: .. > rephrase: clicking the icon many times to open an app will make the > GUI hang (what's the term for this?). This is the most common scenario
That's not a hang, that's PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair). I've actually seen this problem! now that you mention it, on some public Linux terminals we set up at Linux '99. The idiot end users double-click on the icons to launch something. But "nothing happens" so they double-click again.. and again.. and again. You end up with around 20 stacked Mozilla windows and tremendous amounts of disk thrashing because the machine's physical RAM is exhausted. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
