On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:40:02 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Same for firefox, you can teach it to not render animated gifs and run > javascript for invisible tabs, and once the screen-saver kicks in, > nothing is visible (and with X telling apps their window is visible or > not it knows), so it should go idle all of its own. > > Fix the friggin apps, don't kludge with freezing. Of course programs should be as smart as possible. But that is an orthogonal problem. Suppose firefox were fixed. It still needs to fetch my rss feeds every minute, because I'm sad if it doesn't. It just can't be fixed at the application level. Cheers, Flo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
