program launcher going wild

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 05:10:39 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 07/03/2012 12:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 July 2012 00:20:10 Ric Moore did opine:
> >> On 06/29/2012 03:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings all;
> >>> 
> >>> For the 2nd time I am going to have to reboot.
> >>> 
> >>> If I have a copy of firefox running, a click on an html link in an
> >>> email will hand the request off to firefox just fine.
> >>> 
> >>> But if firefox is not running, then whatever is in charge of
> >>> handling such link clicks tries to start at leasy 100 copies of
> >>> konqueror, so I wind up with a machine whose lower info bar has
> >>> buttons from processes trying to run lined up to as little as 1/8"
> >>> wide, which it will do for 2-3 minutes and then it will try to kill
> >>> them all, which it will do for perhaps 5 seconds, but will
> >>> eventually start fireing of another 100 or so copies, none of which
> >>> ever actually open a screen.
> >>> 
> >>> as root, killall konqueror, or killall neopmukservices is powerless
> >>> to stop it.
> >>> 
> >>> htop shows the cpu on a quad core phenom being pushed to as high as
> >>> 90% on all 4 cores, but the only way to stop it is to close down
> >>> kmail cleanly and reboot.  Then spend 20 minutes getting all the
> >>> other stuff I run here started again.
> >> 
> >> Gene, using galternatives as we were talking about off-list, you can
> >> dig into there and set your default browser in stone. Damn, you made
> >> me look go look... x-server-browser. Click on that and then on the
> >> browser you want set.
> > 
> > Which might be fun, if it was installed:
> > gene at coyote:~$ galternatives
> > The program 'galternatives' is currently not installed.  You can
> > install it by typing:
> > sudo apt-get install galternatives
> > 
> >> BUT!! With Thunderbird, it don't care. It still opens firefox,
> >> although I picked Chrome to be my browser. Same might be with that
> >> kmail clinker. It might ONLY open konquerer. You might be stuck like
> >> chuck until you root around in it's innards in hopes that there is a
> >> text file you can modify it's behavior with. I hate them both for
> >> the same reasons I don't like KDE or Mint.
> >> 
> >> We're turning into GD Windows machines, slowly but surely. Bunch of
> >> Linux Soup Nazi's are out there. "You VILL do chust waht I say do! No
> >> fiddlin vif de innards!"
> >> 
> >> ..sorry, that just kinda spilled out. I'm not in charge of what my
> >> brain sends to my fingers. :) Ric
> > 
> > Hey, if its right, why apologize? :)
> > Sorry folks, Ric and I know each other well on another mailing list,
> > and it spills over.
> 
> Do that install of galternatives. Then you might find some stuff
> pointing where it ought not to. Especially regarding Oracle Java vs
> OpenJDK. The scripts always miss something arcane and things go wonko.
> 
> Yup, Gene always manages to have interesting problems! The man has a
> computerized lathe in his garage and can build just about anything with
> it. I think he read "Popular Electronics" and "Popular Mechanics" back
> in the 50's and 60's, over and over, like some guys do "Playboy
> Magazine". He promised to build me a USB-3.0 full sized Robot Love Doll,
> with a red metal flake finish, a LONG time ago. I haven't seen it yet.
> 
> :) Ric

Well, at Ric's age, such a tool could get him all excited & he'd have a 
heart attack. :( We're both diabetic enough that there are things that just 
don't work like they used to.  But I also have a few years on Ric, I'm 77.

There is also a computerized milling machine right next to the lathe he 
referred to above.  And actually, the magazines were Hot Rod or 
electronically related, my "classroom textbooks" so to speak since I've 
worked in electronics for a living for 63 of my 77 years, on an 8th grade 
education.  Some of my "family sedans" over the years have been concealed 
weapons in the stoplight grand prix wars.

Cheers, Gene
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