what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[sktsee]

On Thu, 13 May 2010 05:24:51 -0400, J wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 14:54, sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 11:35:33 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>> I think it might be:
>>> /apps/compiz/plugins/fade/screen0/options/dim_unresponsive
>>
>> Ah yes, I stopped searching too soon. Disabling it entirely would be
>> the preferred solution. Good catch. For ccsm users the dim setting is
>> in the Fade configuration located in the Effects section.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why would you WANT to disable this? The dimming
> of the window is a good visual indicator that the system has
> increasingly limited resources or some app is stuck doing something
> heavy (be it an app moving large amounts of data around on a disk or
> network, or a FF extension gone nuts)
> 
> In any case, the dimming itself doesn't cause the problem, the problem
> is caused by the app....
> 
> Like I said, just curios.  I'd much rather prefer the dimming windows as
> a very obvious visual indicator than just NOT have a window dim, appear
> to be running, and yet be completely unresponsive.

I have no preference regarding the dimming behaviour as I use metacity 
and not compiz for window management. Though I suppose that indirectly 
means that I don't want the behavior, my response wasn't meant to suggest 
that others should disable it, just how to disable it.  What I meant by 
"preferred solution" was in reference to the method pointed out by NoOP 
of actually disabling the feature outright for those that don't like the 
dimming windows, rather than altering the Ping setting to very high 
interval which is what I first wrote. 

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sktsee