[Bug 483569] Re: kjournald2 writing to disk every few seconds

2010-04-28 Thread leftoflexo
did you try disabling hal disk polling? you dont really need it since devkit is also polling every 2 seconds. i disabled mine by going to /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage and renaming hald-addon-storage by placing an extra character at the end then rebooting. another thing i noticed is that i ha

[Bug 40872] Re: Desktop icons are allowed to overlap

2010-04-02 Thread leftoflexo
you know, theres probably a command that is run everytime you click on the "clean up by name" option in the menu. why not put that in a scheduler program to run every 2 seconds? hal and devkit daemon already run every 2 seconds so its not an extreme concept. for example open htop in a terminal and