[PLUG] Stopping apper under KDE

[Arun Khan]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Gaurav Pant <gauravggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I would like to know how to completely stop the *apper* utility
> available under KDE.
>
> Also if it is ok to completely remove the same would be fine or not.
>

Have you looked at KDE>Settings>Background Services?  See if apper
appears in the list.   Also this might be helpful [a].

Many moons ago, I tried to get rid of the the underlying package
(packagekit) on openSUSE unsuccessfully.   Akonadi, Nepomuk and Strigi
are other annoyances (to me) [b].

Desktop Environment (DEs) like KDE and GNOME have put in hard
dependencies on such services.

You can try alternate DEs (lighter) like fluxbox or lxde.

[a] <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315793>
[b] <http://www.databook.bz/?page_id=3728>

HTH,
-- Arun Khan