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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch: Idea for saving power on laptops
From:       Florian Hackenberger <f.hackenberger () chello ! at>
Date:       2007-05-19 10:13:46
Message-ID: 200705191213.46526.f.hackenberger () chello ! at
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On Saturday 19 May 2007, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> Here is your workaround until applications are more power-consuming aware:
> Start firefox etc. in a terminal. Press Ctrl+Z to suspend it. And enter
> 'fg' to resume it. While suspended the window content will not be repainted
> anymore and it will make kwin think the program is not reacting anymore.
Thanks but I knew that and find 'killall -STOP firefox-bin' even easier.

> Guess what: Opera and Firefox are crashing after having them suspended.
> Firefox does not tell anything, opera quits with following message:
Thanks for pointing that out, I just noticed it too. Firefox however just dies 
if you keep it suspended for longer than a few seconds. I'll file a bug 
report about that issue as well.

Flo

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Florian Hackenberger
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