[PLUG] Stopping apper under KDE

[G Karunakar]

On Thu, 5 May 2016 11:25:09 -0700
Arun Khan wrote:

> 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.
> 

Yes KDE 3.x was the best. Then software creep of keeping cpu/gpu/ram
occupied started!
Mate desktop (basically gnone 2.x) is another alternative.

Karunakar


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