Optimize active application

I've heard that you can, via unix commands, tell Tiger to optimize either memory or processor power, to the active application. For example, if I have aperture and photoshop running, but aperture is the forward application (the one that I am actively using) then the OS will devote the most processing power to it.
How do you do this (what are the terminal commands) and is it worth doing?

You will get opposing views as to whether this is or is not worth doing or whether it is best to just leave it to the OS. The command is renice; type man renice into terminal, hit <return> and read all about it.

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[SOLVED] Active application icon is missed in top panel. Gnome 3.4.

Since i've updated the system today, i see that the icon of the active application, which used to be shown in the top panel, has been disappeared. I use gnome 3.4 from Extra, zukitwo theme and Faenza icon theme from AUR.
Here is an image: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51 … e2012.png/
And the pacman log:
[2012-05-03 21:50] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2012-05-03 21:50] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-03 21:50] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-05-03 21:50] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-03 21:50] starting full system upgrade
[2012-05-03 21:51] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-05-03 21:51] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-03 21:51] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-manuel/PKGDEST.NO3/zukitwo-themes-20120503-1-any.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-05-03 21:51] upgraded zukitwo-themes (20120429-1 -> 20120503-1)
[2012-05-04 02:53] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2012-05-04 02:53] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-04 02:53] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-05-04 02:53] synchronizing package lists
[2012-05-04 02:53] starting full system upgrade
[2012-05-04 02:54] upgraded babl (0.1.6-1 -> 0.1.10-1)
[2012-05-04 02:54] upgraded conky (1.8.2git20111107-2 -> 1.9.0-1)
[2012-05-04 02:54] upgraded gtk3 (3.4.1-1 -> 3.4.2-2)
[2012-05-04 02:54] upgraded ttf-freefont (20100919-2 -> 20120503-1)
I'm not even sure if it is the correct behaviour or an error.
I tried other icon themes with the same result.
Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is not good enough.
Last edited by Slab (2012-05-04 16:17:34)

I deliberately removed that from the shell theme. My plan was to remove the entire thing because I find it useless, but in the end I thought a bit of typography there wasn't such a bad thing. The icon however I find hideous looking. To get the icon back you can open the gnome-shell.css file in Zukitwo-Shell/gnome-shell/ and remove height and width from this:
.panel-button #appMenuIcon {
app-icon-bottom-clip: 0px;
height: 0px;
width: 0px;
Also change this to 24px instead of 0.
.app-menu-icon {
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
Last edited by lassekongo83 (2012-05-04 10:29:11)

All Active Application Requests is empty

I have setup the Application Approval Workflow. I use 3 different servers one for SCOR one for SCSM and one for SM Datawarehouse. Everything appears to be set up correctly according to the AAW documentation.
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marked for requiring Approval in SCCM (2012 R2 CU3) ?
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If I disable CheckMax and Increment Counter to force it to route to the Get IsActive counter it doesn't run past Check init Start.
So the Sychronize Application Requests counter is not getting run.
Hope this makes sense and any feedback appreciated.
Stephen

Hi,
Please try to manually sync the application requests under Work Items by clicking
Sync Now.
Please also check out the CM -> SM Synchronization Runbook and run through it once via Runbook Tester. This way you can get additional information for what particular application this activity failed. Then check what might be wrong with the application
on SCCM side.
Regards,
Yan Li
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Active Applications ???

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Rohit B wrote:
How do you know all the active applications that are running? Is there a taskbar sort of thing for leopard?
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I am so new to leopard....
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Nah mate, not that.
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skr

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> Would like to point out that the Domain values for
> the Activity Category have been custom created and we
> are not using any of the standard Activity Categories
> provided by SAP.
>
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