what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[NoOp]

On 05/13/2010 02:24 AM, 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? 

I don't. The OP does. This is a tech list & linux... :-)

> 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.
> 

One app that doesn't dim anything (and usually doesn't even give a
visual indicator) is when the update manager (+ synaptic & apt-check) &
dpkg all decide to play together.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/537241
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/355355