How to prevent gam_server from running?

Steve Bertrand steve.bertrand at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 23:23:26 UTC 2012


On 2012.02.15 17:57, 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.

Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server?

Steve


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