Try `ps aux'. When I type ps it only shows bash and ps, but ps aux shows all the activities, and other processes. Blake Elias <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Esteban Arias <<a href="mailto:earias@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">earias@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, how to determine if any activity is open on sugar 0.82? if I list the process with "ps", only can i match "python /usr/bin/sugar-activity <activity> ..." (example, journal or terminal) but other activities i dont see...(example write) _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a data="SABAdded" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a data="SABAdded" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>