Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Russell Senior
> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: John> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the John> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its John> PID, the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running John> processes sit still? Two more that I didn't se

[PLUG] Rumble grumble

2012-05-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
Previously the cables picked up RF in the room giving me odd noise artifacts. Now that I have my new Bluetooth device set up my stereo is silent when music is not playing. That is, it is silent except for a rumble noise in the background. It is loud enough to hear it even when music is playing. Whe

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Sat, 12 May 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> As for Rhythmbox, none of the suggestions helped kill it. The ps >> commands listed it, but no parent process or any other process >> associated with it. > > Use ps to get the PID (pr

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 May 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote: > As for Rhythmbox, none of the suggestions helped kill it. The ps commands > listed it, but no parent process or any other process associated with it. Use ps to get the PID (process identification number). Then type 'kill '. If the process is stil

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:25:45 -0500 Fred James dijo: >John Jason Jordan wrote: >> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the >> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, >> the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit >> still? >

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Fred James
John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the > application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, > the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit > still? > > 2) At the moment I have Rhythmbox running on my Lucid de

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Dale Snell
On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:04:25 -0700 John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the > application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, > the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit > still? Instead of using top o

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:04:25PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the > application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, > the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit > still? press d (delay) a

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 May 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the > application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, the > screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit still? Stand on its toes. Look at result

[PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID, the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit still? 2) At the moment I have Rhythmbox running on my Lucid desktop and I can't kill it. It does n