Some strange behaviour

[David Curtis]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:26 PM, James <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I'm experiencing some strange behaviour with Ubuntu 10.04 on my
> eee pc 701. What's happening is that after a short while the title bar of
> any given open window will start to flash.  If I click on the task bar to
> choose another window then the icon on the task bar for that window
> will flash. If I exit all apps then what appears is a windown opening and
> closing on the desktop so quickly that I can't even get to it. It doesn't
> appear to have any contents. Rather just a blank minimal window as
> small as it can be to get the 3 icons to close, minimise and maximise it.
> I have made a few mods to the system so likely I messed up a little. I've
> been trying to save room on the system as it's main drive is only 4gig.
> So far I managed to move the home directory to an 8gig sd card. I
> uninstalled compiz, have installed a number of window managers.
> Thought lubuntu might have been the culprit so uninstalled it and still
> the same. I'm happy to try and supply any info that might be usefull in
> taking the prob
>
> Thx in advance
> James


Next time it happens and all other apps are closed, open a terminal and run
'top'. The culprit should/could be near the top of the list.  This might
give you enough info in regards to the 'mods' you have made. If not, post
here again.
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