[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15333] New: When sorted by CPU usage, the process list gets automatically scrolled down as time goes on.

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15333

            Bug ID: 15333
           Summary: When sorted by CPU usage, the process list gets
                    automatically scrolled down as time goes on.
    Classification: Apps
           Product: Xfce4-taskmanager
           Version: 1.2.0
          Hardware: PC (x86_64)
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: lockywolf at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

I often keep the Task Manager open in the background and I have processes
sorted by CPU usage to be able to quickly see who's stealing all my precious
iops.

However, as time goes on, the process list gets automatically scrolled down,
till the very bottom of the list.

I suspect (but cannot prove) that the mechanism is the following: one process
is selected in the list all the time. As time progresses and processes die,
before dying they usually start occupying less CPU, and thus get ranked lower
in the process list. When a process dies, apparently, the selected process is
chosen to be the closes to the one who just died. That is the one with a low
CPU usage.

This is a bit inconvenient, as when examining processes sorted by CPU usage, I
am usually no interested in a particular process but rather in, say, top
$nCores.

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