Re: Help nice'ing the screensaver

2000-11-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I've gone directly into the gnome control center and simply set the priority level quite low. This is a slider, so no numbers are displayed. Found out later that this changes the invocation line in ~/.gnome/Screensaver to a good setting (18), where I don't see it interfering with anything else.

Re: Help nice'ing the screensaver

2000-11-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:55:07AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > The problem I'm facing is about the screensaver. When I'm using my X > session, and my wife's screensaver kicks in, it hogs my CPU (not to > speak about the memory)... Is there any way to either nice the > screensaver (w

Help nice'ing the screensaver

2000-11-22 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I share my home computer with my wife, and what I did was have gdm (Gnome's xdm replacement) spawn 2 X sessions, one that can be found at Ctrl-Alt-F7 (which I use) and the other at Ctrl-Alt-F8 (which my wife uses). I've been using this forever (without gdm, in the past), and it's a winner --