Bug 545627 - Request for suspending processes through metacity
Request for suspending processes through metacity
Status: NEW
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
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Reported: 2008-07-31 03:12 UTC by Markus
Modified: 2008-08-01 02:49 UTC (History)
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GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

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Description Markus 2008-07-31 03:12:28 UTC 
I think it would be useful if it were possible to stop processes through the window manager. I normally use the shell to sigstop resourceful processes if I need the whole performance at one process. But it would be way faster the direct way.

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Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2008-08-01 02:49:01 UTC 
My thoughts on the general problem got long enough to become a separate blog post:

http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/08/01/mostly-about-curry-in-fact/
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