How to permanently set higher process priority in GUI

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 01:25:22 -0700
Tony Baechler - BATS <bats at batsupport.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> OK, I'll make my question really simple.  Is there a way within the GUI to 
> permanently set a particular program (in this case ffmpeg) to always run at 
> the highest priority and access all available memory?  I would need point 
> and click instructions for the user.  Remote access to the desktop is not an 
> option, but I can send him email or a link to follow.
> 
> I personally prefer having him upload to the server, but the videos are huge 
> and he is on a slow connection, so it makes more sense for him to do the 
> transcoding on his end.

Well, Xfce has something called Task Manager (package:
xfce4-taskmanager). It allows you to right-click on a process and raise
or lower the priority. I would guess that Gnome and other DE's has a
similar program.

Of course, he would need to do this on each run. The only way to make
it permanent that I can think of would be to create a wrapper, as Karl
has suggested. He actually gave you a really comprehensive answer.

Petter

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