Advice needed on how to track down a program after 3 mins upti

Question

Hi... really struggling with tracking down a daemon/script that is running on my system.... have openbox, with some gnome, xfce and lxde programs to make it more gui based. Wondering if someone can can help me track down the program that is over-riding my synaptics config?
Basically, I have a synaptics config file in xorg.conf.d that is read and applied at boot. Then at around 3min 28 secs of uptime, this config gets overridden. I have stared at the output of top to see if there is anything showing up at around that time, but I not noticing anything!
The arch wiki mentions;
Gnome settings daemon may override existing settings (for example ones set in xorg.conf.d) for which there is no equivalent in any of the graphical configuration utilities. It is possible to stop gnome from touching mouse settings at all:
Run dconf-editor
Edit /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
Uncheck the active setting
It will now respect your system's existing synaptics configuration.
however, this option is not available, so I am assuming this is not the cause (might be mistaken?), but am now lost. I have tried to remove dconf, but it has dependencies I use for smbclient, namely gvfs.
Any ideas / help / guidance or what ever would be great!
Thanks

Answer 1

ninjaprawn wrote:no, the file itself is not being overwritten... just the values are being overridden...the values remain the same, just dont have any effect... and if I pass something like 'synclient CoastingFriction=5' this has no effect on the coasting speed, even if the value was 0 before.
Oh, overridden. My bad, I read "overwritten" by accident. My apologies. Unfortunately I don't think I can help. Sorry :\. lsof should still help you if what you're trying to do is track though. GDB wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
Last edited by FluxCapp (2013-06-17 22:37:15)