How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
> desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
> to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
> once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.
>
> I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
> can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
> it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
> somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)
>
> Any clues, anyone?  I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one.

It's some hidden gnome thing.  No real idea how to disable it, maybe 
gconf.  It's responsible for monitoring file changes, so does have some 
usefulness.

Might be better to figure out why it's tying up the CPU.