I have attached my package list - but its a little difficult to read without any line breaks etc. is there anything I can do to get it as a formatted list or is that asking for too much?

I killed pulseaudio in root mode, but that didn't improve the situation much.

I also see that image viewer comes in the top list and i don't have it running. Are the apps not closing properly? Is that a possibility? Have you seen this before?

Thanks for the help slender.