gnome-cups-icon 100% processor usage

[Scott Balneaves]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> Has anyone had top or htop open while students are printing?  Everytime a print job is
> sent gnome-cups-icon spikes processor usage on at least one processor 100%.  I haven't
> seen any slowdowns at this point but it may be a problem in the future.  I also notice
> that if 3 different printers (or however many are in use) are processing jobs at the
> same time I get multiple icons by the clock, one for each printer.
> 
> Honestly I don't care to see the icons at all.  Anyone know of a simple way to remove
> the gnome-cups-icon so it doesn't consume so much processor and so users to have to look
> at all of those icons?

To remove it from the default gnome session, edit 
/usr/share/gnome/default.session.  For any existing accounts, you'll need to 
remove it from $HOME/.gnome2/session.

An excellent resource to have, as a Gnome administrator, is the Gnome Desktop 
System Administration Guide. See:

http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/ for the online, and
http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/gnome2.14-system-admin-guide.pdf
for a printable pdf.

Scott

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