Greetings; I had unclutter setup -idle .1 -reset
But that was too quick a hide for email since I have a folder or 2 that when advancing into, display the spinning dumbell while it finding the new message to show me. And even on this machine I may spin for 15 or more seconds as theres quite a few gigabytes of mail files in that directory. So I though it would be useful to reset the idle time to 30 seconds. I made that change in /etc/default/unclutter, but X doesn't seem to have a restart mechanism like the stuff in init.d does, as its normally started as 90unclutter in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. So I sent it a SIGHUP, which killed it rather than causing it to re-read its config, effectively restarting it. So I started it by hand with a sudo prefix and an & terminator. htop shows both the "sudo unclutter -idle 30 -reset", and the "unclutter -idle 30 -reset" processes running, but its not even working for that terminal screen. Sending the sudo version a SIGTERM kills both. Because X is very poor at remembering what I have running and what screen its running on, a logout, and log back in, it is about a 10 minute process to get back to the everything running in the correct workspace. I have to not only figure out the mishmash of multitab terminals it reopens on whatever workspace I am on by the time it gets around to restoring them. This includes the time spent moving that terminal to the workspace it belongs in, restarting a sudo htop, sudo tail messages, another tail on fetchmails log, switch to workspace 2 and initilize 3 sessions of sshfs and 3 sessions of ssh-Y to my other machines, starting kmail on this workspace, and an incoming mailwatcher script that tells kmail to go get the mail after a new mail has been written to /var/spool/mail. Very occasionally it will restart kmail too, but probably piled up on workspace 1 with the rest of the terminal sessions. So how can one effectively restart a process normally started by a file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
