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

From Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com>
Subject Re: HOW2 know which Desktop,VT is busy with USBstik
Date 2011-04-24 22:21 +0200
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Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
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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?

> 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.

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.

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!

regards Henrik

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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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