program launcher going wild

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 00:20:10 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 06/29/2012 03:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > For the 2nd time I am going to have to reboot.
> > 
> > If I have a copy of firefox running, a click on an html link in an
> > email will hand the request off to firefox just fine.
> > 
> > But if firefox is not running, then whatever is in charge of handling
> > such link clicks tries to start at leasy 100 copies of konqueror, so
> > I wind up with a machine whose lower info bar has buttons from
> > processes trying to run lined up to as little as 1/8" wide, which it
> > will do for 2-3 minutes and then it will try to kill them all, which
> > it will do for perhaps 5 seconds, but will eventually start fireing
> > of another 100 or so copies, none of which ever actually open a
> > screen.
> > 
> > as root, killall konqueror, or killall neopmukservices is powerless to
> > stop it.
> > 
> > htop shows the cpu on a quad core phenom being pushed to as high as
> > 90% on all 4 cores, but the only way to stop it is to close down
> > kmail cleanly and reboot.  Then spend 20 minutes getting all the
> > other stuff I run here started again.
> 
> Gene, using galternatives as we were talking about off-list, you can dig
> into there and set your default browser in stone. Damn, you made me look
> go look... x-server-browser. Click on that and then on the browser you
> want set.
> 
Which might be fun, if it was installed:
gene at coyote:~$ galternatives
The program 'galternatives' is currently not installed.  You can install it 
by typing:
sudo apt-get install galternatives

> BUT!! With Thunderbird, it don't care. It still opens firefox, although
> I picked Chrome to be my browser. Same might be with that kmail clinker.
> It might ONLY open konquerer. You might be stuck like chuck until you
> root around in it's innards in hopes that there is a text file you can
> modify it's behavior with. I hate them both for the same reasons I don't
> like KDE or Mint.
> 
> We're turning into GD Windows machines, slowly but surely. Bunch of
> Linux Soup Nazi's are out there. "You VILL do chust waht I say do! No
> fiddlin vif de innards!"
> 
> ..sorry, that just kinda spilled out. I'm not in charge of what my brain
> sends to my fingers. :) Ric

Hey, if its right, why apologize? :)
Sorry folks, Ric and I know each other well on another mailing list, and it 
spills over.

Cheers, Gene
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