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[Anonymous]

am used to using ‘pstree’ to see how everything fits together.

The following is helpful toward tracing how the ankle bone is connected to the leg bone…

(tested with various window manager under SLiM, never tested with KWin)

Anonymous wrote:

reposted from http://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/i-want-to-get-a-list-of-what-programs-i-run/#post-60151

snoopski logger provides a shared library (a libc execve() wrapper), as well as 2 utility scripts which enable/disable LD_PRELOAD injection of libsnoopski.
Configurable choice of logged details can be specified within /etc/snoopski.ini, useful toward performing light/heavy system monitoring, and toward gaining a good sense of what’s going on in the system (for example apache running many, and short-lived, cgi scripts).

cd /tmp && wget http://gitlab.com/skidoo/snoopski/snoopski_2.4.14_amd64.deb
sudo apt install /tmp/snoopski_2.4.14_amd64.deb
sudo snoopski-enable

followup:
1) logout + login (or, change to a fresh desktop session via desktopMenu } Other Desktops }

2) after launching several programs… view /tmp/snoopski.log

3) whenever you wish to deactivate snoopski, use the command “slimski-disable”

4) (optional) toward reducing logspam/noise (and toward further lean-n-meaning the system)
visit and read about suggested optimizations to .conkyrc

5) At your leisure, skim/read file:///usr/share/doc/snoopski/snoopski_usage_guide.html

its output, per the as-shipped default configuration, looks like this:

(that log snippet represents “what happens behind the scenes upon clicking desktopMenu } OtherDesktops”)

If you tinker with this, I’m curious to hear any blind spots (missed programs, or missed launch mechanisms) that you discover.