Re: beagle causing high load when X not active?

["Felix E. Klee" <felix klee inka de>]

At Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:52 -0400,
Joe Shaw wrote:
> > How can I tell beagle to never assume that the system is idle?
> 
> Try running "xset -dpms" and "xset s off" in your X session to see if
> that fixes the problem.

No, I had already start "xset -dpms" and "xset s off" when my window
manager (FVWM) starts.  So that doesn't fix the problem.

beagled somehow detects when I switched to a different virtual console
and think the machine is now idling.

> There's no option right now to turn off the faster indexing on screen
> saver, although there's no reason why it couldn't be added.  I suggest
> filing a bug about that so it doesn't get forgotten.

I've filed a feature wish:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424671

> Another possible workaround is to unset the DISPLAY environment
> variable when running beagled, so that it can't connect to the X
> server.

I faintly recall some problems when doing that, namely that when
starting "beagled --replace" from ~/.bash_profile when I log in several
times in a row [1], then I had several instances of beagled running
concurrently.  I think we discussed that on IRC, but I may be mixing
things up.

[1] This may happen e.g. when I'm working solely with virtual text
  consoles under LINUX.

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