<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Roger <arelem@bigpond.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">Diverging from the increasing number of posts on this desktop somewhat repetitive 'removing Unity' topic. I reference a somewhat more pressing (for me) problem with Unity and Thunderbird Precise 12.04 with latest updates. Once Thunderbird is started in Unity more than once over a couple of hours it cannot be killed, at least on my machine, and it eats up memory and cpu time. My only option is to open a terminal and sudo shutdown now. I shut down Thunderbird by clicking on the (X) and find it cannot be restarted but produces an error message that Thunderbird is running, stop the process or restart the machine. ps aux shows 3758 10.0 4.4 521304 92752 ? Sl 08:15 0:55 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin sudo kill 3758 has no effect After 3 hours the pc has slowed to a crawl and has to be restarted. I have never experienced this with any previous version of thunderbird. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there any other way to kill the app other than the above. Roger -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </pre></blockquote></div> Try: killall -9 thunderbird or killall - 9 thunderbird-bin or killall -9 ps# HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math and CS <a href="http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com">http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009">http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009</a> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>