copy/paste problem

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 22:29, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>
> > This is a fancy way of saying "don't use Chrome, use Firefox", which
> > is a fancy way of saying "don't use a Chrome-family browser (e.g.
> > Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari), use a Mozilla-family browser (e.g.
> > Waterfox, SeaMonkey, PaleMoon, etc.)"
>
> I'm currently running Firefox, PaleMoon, Brave, Vivaldi, and I use them
> in that order. I'm also experimenting with Falcon, but copy/paste does
> not work at all, in any way, so that makes it very non-useful.

OK. My point here was that this comes up fairly often with browser
tabs/windows. Not with file managers, in my experience.

So for your particular instance, you can really just ignore the
comments about browsers.

> I tried Nemo some time ago, had problems, and dropped it. Might be good
> to try it again.

I find it makes like easier _not_ to set it to manage the desktop. I
just pin an icon to the dock and use that when I need a file manager.
Nautilus/Files remains the default.

It works fine as the desktop manager, but distro upgrades break, every time.

> Side question - are multiple tabs in
> one file manager more efficient than using multiple file managers?

Depends on the tool but probably not. I'd expect a tab to run in the
same process or thread, but a window quite possibly to be a new
process.

> I've used these in the past but not currently. I actually still have
> Midnight Commander installed on the current system, but don't use it.

I suggest trying a few out.

Also, don't neglect virtual desktops. Pair a vdesktop with the
browser/ file manager for that subject.

Mental / conceptual segregation can sometimes save computer resources,
or make them more useful.

> When I tried to check out the CPU usage with HTOP, I got a strange
> sounding result. When sorted by CPU, the top line listed CPU usage at
> 500-550%. Not sure how to interpret that, but it doesn't sound like an
> ordinary percentage.

I'd interpret that as you having 6-8 CPU cores and the process is
maxing out 5 cores and ½ of another.

> Below that are about 15 entries, each with 30-50%.
> All of these are for WebKitwebprocess.

Webkit means a Chrome-based browser. As I said, if you routinely work
with lots of tabs, Chrome is not your friend. 1 tab = 1 process. So
many means lots of RAM, lots of CPU, lots of disk activity.

Firefox maxes out at 4 processes.

> Anyway, thank you very much for your (always useful) suggestions and
> info.

It's kind of you to say so and thanks! I will be very pleased if they
are of any help.

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