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Re (2): HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik

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In article <pan.2011.04.24.20.21.17.530561@deadspam.com>, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote: 

> no.top.post@gmail.com wrote:
> > You can't `umount <USBstik>` if you can't find which VT is still 'busy
> > with it' !!
> > 
> > I've normally got 20 VTs open, over the 4 Desktops.
> 
> I suppose you don't mean one of those 6 virtual text terminals that you
> get on tty1 to tty6 on a default Slackware installation? Instead I suppose
> you mean those pseudo terminals you get from a terminal window like xterm
> or konsole?
> ! Yes, when I mention 'Desktops' it means I'm in X.
> 
> > Previously I used KDE3, and I made a utility using `lsof` & `pstree -p`
> > to list a table of eg:
> 
> You might find the command fuser more useful, example:
> 
> fuser -m /media/disk
> 
> Once you have found the processes you might choose to try to find their
> windows or maybe simply just kill them. If you window manager gives you
> multiple desktops those desktops can be used to keep track of things. If
> you use each desktop for its own purpose it will be rather easy to find
> the window you are looking for. If you more or less random scatter your
> windows over different desktops it will allways be hard to find the window
> you are looking for.
> 
Real life is that many items belong to multiple categories.
Theoretrically Marxism also is a good system too, but in practice...
I've got a script, so that when I open a new `mc` in a VT, I just
keyin `x 3,5` and it appends: `pwd`"=  3,5"
to the table of <what each open VT has as its pwd>.
But the discipline/restiction of its use is stifling.
This question is just part of my general question:
 how to see which Desktop,VT has 'got' dirD.  
Entropy: 2nd law of thermodymanics can't be beaten.

> Think of the desktops like drawers in a desk. If you allways use the same
> drawer for each of your possessions it will be easy to find what you are
> looking for. If you or someone else puts your possessions more or less
> randomly in your drawers it will be hard to find what you are looking for.
> ! That's obvious. THink of a cencert pianist, who has to fill-in forms in
> triplicate before he hits the next note.  Alternatively I could delgate the
> tasks to a tem of slaves.
> 
> I have 9 virtual desktops in KDE myself. One is for sysadmin, one is for
> surf and mail, one is for development in a project and one is for
> development in another project, one is for documentation... You get the
> idea!
> 
Yes that just confirms that YOU have acknowledged the problem.
I made a utility for my Mandrake: KDE3 work-horse that uses the
pid found in `lsof | grep <theDir> with the <position in the diagram>
of the same pid in `pstree -p`. But now I want to use Slk13: xfce,
and the pstree-p seems to be structure 'chronologically' and unrelated
to Desktops. But some file MUST know which D,VT path:P of open `mc`.

Thanks for feedback.

> regards Henrik

== Chris Glur

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HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-24 11:26 +0000
  Re: HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-04-24 22:21 +0200
    Re (2): HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-27 13:16 +0000

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