Message-ID: <3A3995C5.AEFB0CAE@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:53:41 +1300 From: dan carter <dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] so many kdeinits ?
David Nellans wrote:
>
> anyone else who has installed kde or kde2 have upwards of 10 and sometimes
> 20 kdeinit processes running as soon as they log in to the machine and start
> kde? is this normal, and why are so many starting and then appearing to do
> nothing?
>
> dave
Whenever KDE2 starts a program it actually starts a program called
kdeinit and tells kdeinit to start the program. kdeinit puts an entry
in the taskbar straight away while the program starts up, maybe it does
more than this too. Hence all the different programs that are part of a
kde desktop appear in top as kdeinit. If you run kpm, it will show you
the program name, it lists them as for example kdeinit:kicker.
10 or 20 processes seems fairly normal when you consider that lots of
the kde desktop is running as seperate programs, plus all the little
accesories, mail notifiers etc.
[dcarter@ou075183 dcarter]$ ps -A |grep kdeinit |wc
20 80 640
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