Beyond the normal stuff, what is it that is running in the background ?

Every once in a while I see a completion status bar flash across the screen and I am curious to figure out what it is doing ?

There must be some kind of kewl utility that will tell me what is running, and now I need to poke around and find it.
This is kinda fun.

On 08/10/2013 02:16 PM, hextejas wrote:
>
> There must be some kind of kewl utility that will tell me what is
> running, and now I need to poke around and find it.
> This is kinda fun.

open a konsole, x-term, terminal and type in


top

and press enter, and you can see what process are the top uses of ram
and/or CPU cycles…

or, type in


ps -ef | less

and you can see all the running processes…

hmmmmm…i guess someone who “grew up” in a GUI world would tell you
to open a GUI tool…i would tell you how, but i have forgotten (it
is been so long since i did it)

NOTICE: you need to start telling which version of openSUSE and which
desktop you are running–in every post (yours are not the only
questions i try to answer and i cannot remember all currently posting
forum users details)

so assuming you are using KDE: go Menu > Applications > System >
Monitor > System Monitor, and have a lot of fun.

alternatively: hold down the left Alt and press F2…a dialog will
pop-up at the top of the screen…on my KDE it has four icons and a
blank to type in…so type in


system monitor

and pick one

or after doing the Alt+F2, click on the icon that looks like a box
with a squiggly line in it…and have a lot of fun

i think i mentioned earlier that there are a lot of ways to do things…


dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Complaints

Thank you DD and I will remember to indicate what I am running.

I think kded4 is the culprit, so now to go poke around and see what he is doing.