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- Prevents pasting from clipboard while the selection source process is suspended …
- Won't work in remote X sessions.
- Won't work with Wayland.
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- Processes that take a long time to shut down after their window already disappears may be stopped in the middle of their termination routines.
For Chrome, I wrote this simple script:
https://github.com/albertz/system-tools/blob/master/bin/chro...
This works also on MacOSX, and really saves quite some resources. Even with tab suspenders (The Great Suspender), Chrome still takes quite some resources.
And that is probably mostly fine since HTTP is or is supposed to be stateless. IMAP by design can reconnect and one can work around SSH by using MOSH [1] in those cases which is stateless and great for lossy and/or mobile networks.
[1] - https://mosh.org/
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