From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SbsV9-00039h-GR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:04:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E985FE0A5C for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F723E05F5 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9081B4016 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:31:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Non-encoded 8-bit data (char C3 hex): User-Agent: Pan/0.138 (Der Ger\303\244t; GIT 500c706[...] X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.493 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.493 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.581, BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7pN_u1NdW7om for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42A081B4022 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sbr2g-0006LM-Sp for gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:31:14 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:31:14 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:31:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Help troubleshooting keyboard shortcut Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <10483565.J4nl824RMJ@powerslave> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.138 (Der Gerät; GIT 500c706 /usr/src/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a096cb01-ceca-46d2-90eb-67481675a6d8 X-Archives-Hash: 506f1f561233c9d014bb9ec66289b9ae Yohan Pereira posted on Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:04:43 +0530 as excerpted: > On Friday 01 Jun 2012 19:08:27 Chris Stankevitz wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> I use gnome on a stable system. I set my "preferred browser" to >> chromium. I set a "keyboard shortcut" to launch my browser: Mod4+W. >>=20 >> 90% of the time when I press Mod4+W, the browser appears. >>=20 >> 10% of the time when I press Mod4+W, the browser does not appear. >>=20 > Do you have this problem while starting chrome directly? On my system > sometimes chrome does not exist correctly leaving behind some zombile > processes. When this happens I cannot launch chrome again. I need to > kill these processes to be able to start chrome. FWIW, firefox does this occasionally too. A "killall firefox" usually=20 does the trick. But with firefox, it at least pops up a little dialog telling you that it= =20 believes another instance is running. It'd be a bit confusing without=20 that. Even if it's sometimes frustrating seeing the dialog, it's better=20 than not knowing the problem, I guess. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman