[PLUG] Stopping apper under KDE

[Gaurav Pant]

Hi,

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> 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].

Found out KDE > Settings > Apper > Installed Software > click on icon
upper RHS corner > settings
Disabled
1) Check for distribution upgrades to *Never*
2) Check for new updates to *Never*
Hope this helps.

> 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.

Probably will shift to xfce :)

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