On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:07 +0000, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > Peter Merchant wrote: > > > > pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ ps xauww | grep -i skype > > peterm 1514 6.2 3.0 117308 47452 ? Sl 08:23 > > 0:05 /usr/bin/skype -session > > 101b61b510c13d000125771335600000014520019_1257882867_669862 > > peterm 1522 7.2 3.2 120636 50396 ? Sl 08:23 > > 0:06 /usr/bin/skype -session > > 101b61b510c13d000125771405100000014520028_1257882867_670096 > > peterm 1546 4.1 3.2 121660 50356 ? Sl 08:23 > > 0:03 /usr/bin/skype -session > > 101b61b510c13d000125771481900000014520035_1257882867_670195 > > peterm 1673 0.0 0.0 3036 676 pts/1 D+ 08:25 0:00 grep > > --color=auto -i skype > > pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ > > pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ > > > > > > > Hi Peter- > > I was wondering if a session manager was causing your problem, and the > "-session" parameter seems to suggest it might be. I don't really know > anything about the KDE session manager though. > > http://jucato.org/gallery/v/screenshots/ksmserver/kcmsmserver.png.html > > If you do "pstree" you can see what parent process owns these skype > instances, which might be interesting. But if you can find the menu > option to start with an empty session, give that a try too. > > John > > After using the suggestion to ps xauww.... and then Killing a couple of the processes, The next time it booted up there was only one Skype. So I rebooted just to see if it was an anomaly and it now seems Ok.
Thanks to all. Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-12-02 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
