Re: FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify
lee writes: > Hi, > > I would like to make a function that suspends the corresponding process > when I iconify a window and unsuspends it when I uniconify the window. > > Particularly, I want to (un-)suspend seamonkey with this (because it > uses ridiculous amounts of CPU time and memory the latter of which might > be swapped out more easily when the process is suspended than when it is > not). > > The kill command works nicely for it, i. e. 'kill -STOP process>' and 'kill -CONT ' work fine. > > I googled for a solution and found some suggestions as to obtain the > process ID, yet none of them seemed to work. Since seamonkey is usually > started through fvwm with a starter function, I might be able to obtain > the PID when starting it and use that. However, this approach would be > somewhat limited. X windows don't have an associated PID, after all, the window might be from a remote system. For your case, pgrep might give you the PID. -- Dan Espen
FVWM: suspending a process on Iconify
Hi, I would like to make a function that suspends the corresponding process when I iconify a window and unsuspends it when I uniconify the window. Particularly, I want to (un-)suspend seamonkey with this (because it uses ridiculous amounts of CPU time and memory the latter of which might be swapped out more easily when the process is suspended than when it is not). The kill command works nicely for it, i. e. 'kill -STOP ' and 'kill -CONT ' work fine. I googled for a solution and found some suggestions as to obtain the process ID, yet none of them seemed to work. Since seamonkey is usually started through fvwm with a starter function, I might be able to obtain the PID when starting it and use that. However, this approach would be somewhat limited. What might be the best way to make a general function to suspend and unsuspend processes when their windows are iconified and uniconified, respectively? -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.
