[thunar] thunar process but no thunar window?!

[Maximilian Schleiss]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:41:12 +0200 - Maximilian Schleiss
> <maxschleiss at bluewin.ch> wrote :
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just fired up xfce4-taskmanager to kill a non responding program
>> and noticed that there are two running Thunar processes while there
>> are no thunar windows running. Is that normal? Is it used by
>> Xfdesktop in some way for the desktop icons and launchers?
>>
>>     
>
>   It is probably the daemon which is very low-cost memory consuming,
> and speeds up the time of a Thunar window to appear.  There won't be
> supplement Thunar instances when you open Thunar windows.
>
>   Try the next to see the arguments passed to Thunar: 
>
> 	ps ax|grep -i thunar
>   
ps ax | grep -i thunar  7683 ?        Sl     0:01 /usr/bin/Thunar --daemon
 7686 tty6     S      0:00 Thunar --sm-client-id 
11c0a801af000115666986000000112130003 --daemon
 9062 pts/2    R+     0:00 grep --colour=auto -i thunar

You are right, opening new thunar windows does not open a new instance 
to be seen in the taskmanager. Thank you for the answer.
>   
>> Max
>>     
>
>
> Mike
>   
Max