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jere

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Registered: 2012-01-22

Posts: 5

xfce4-taskmanager shows wrong uid?

Running Ubuntu Server 14.04 with xfce4 4.10, xfce4-taskmanager 1.0.1.

I'm confused about the process uid values in xfce4-taskmanager compared to output of the ps command or gnome-system-monitor. I've only noticed this on the google chrome processes.

Here is what i see in xfce4-taskmanager:

Here is the output of ps -efH command:

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
jere     20554 14447  2 08:23 ?        00:00:14         /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
jere     20561 20554  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00           /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
jere     20562 20554  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00           /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox /opt/google/chrome/chr
jere     20563 20562  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00             /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=zygote
jere     20569 20563  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00               /opt/google/chrome/nacl_helper
jere     20570 20563  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00               /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=zygote
jere     20611 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20616 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:04                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20632 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20644 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20657 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20667 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20690 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20697 20570  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=utility --channel
jere     20751 20570  1 08:25 ?        00:00:06                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20940 20570  2 08:32 ?        00:00:00                 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=renderer --lang=e
jere     20726 20554  0 08:23 ?        00:00:04           /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=gpu-process --channel=2
jere     20730 20726  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00             /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=gpu-process --channel
jere     20736 20554  0 08:23 ?        00:00:00           /opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=plugin --plugin-path=/h

My question is: why do some of the chrome processes appear to be running as root in xfce4-taskmanager, while the ps command lists all of them running as my user? Is there a difference between the two displayed fields?