Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-08-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 01:59:35PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The preceding paragraphs have a lot of articles (such as "it"), so I > can't be sure what you're saying, but it sounds like "the balance > program" is hogging CPU, so don't use it, or at least don't use it when > you're doing other work.

Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
Haines Brown said on Sun, 1 Aug 2021 07:16:00 -0400 >On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 02:54:55AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> Haines Brown said on Sat, 31 Jul 2021 21:54:56 -0400 >> >> >Sorry for the ambivalent subject line. >> > >> >I'm running Beowulf with Fluxbox window manager but without a >> >deskt

Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-08-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 07:16:00 -0400, Haines wrote in message <2021080600.ge29...@engels.histomat.net>: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 02:54:55AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Haines Brown said on Sat, 31 Jul 2021 21:54:56 -0400 > > > > >Sorry for the ambivalent subject line. > > > > > >I'm running

Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-08-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 02:54:55AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Haines Brown said on Sat, 31 Jul 2021 21:54:56 -0400 > > >Sorry for the ambivalent subject line. > > > >I'm running Beowulf with Fluxbox window manager but without a desktop > >environment. Without knowing what might have triggered it,

Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
Haines Brown said on Sat, 31 Jul 2021 21:54:56 -0400 >Sorry for the ambivalent subject line. > >I'm running Beowulf with Fluxbox window manager but without a desktop >environment. Without knowing what might have triggered it, I find it >laborious to start some applications from CLI. What happens i

[DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-07-31 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry for the ambivalent subject line. I'm running Beowulf with Fluxbox window manager but without a desktop environment. Without knowing what might have triggered it, I find it laborious to start some applications from CLI. What happens is that I get a hang (little spiral rotates) until I kill th