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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #910845
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 910845

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: Message "Cannot change the priority of process" is displayed with a normal user selects a high priority process

Chris, the original bug report is about a popup displayed when a user scrolls over a process which he is not allowed to change priority.

You're describing 2 other defects:
1. a problem with the way the niceness is being set on boot
2. The fact that a normal user cannot increase priority (lower nice value) of their own process. This is expected and documented in the man pages of setpriority and renice (even if it is in the BUG section of renice) But in that case gnome-system-monitor is supposed to open a dialog and prompt for root access.

Could you please file a new report for both issues ?
It would be nice if someone could report this bug and point 2 to the upstream bug tracker (bugzilla.gnome.org)

Thanks for your help.