Stop KDE services from running

Question

I recently installed KDE with the command sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.

Now whenever I log into Unity I can see KDE-related services running in the background and I see no obvious way to prevent them from opening at startup. I checked bum but I see nothing there.

These are the services I see running right now:

kde4 klauncher knotify4

These ones I can identify as being related to KDE given their names, but there could be more.

How can I prevent these services from launching by themselves?

I should mention I often use KDE applications such as kate, okular and kile. Could these be responsible for opening those services?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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You need to utilize "startup services" to disable those specific processes.

See this link for more information How to enable or disable services?

It gives you some options as "how to".

Go to System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications. Un-check things which you want to disable on startup.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

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answered Dec 09 '12 at 18:36

Ringtail

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:21

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Yes, KDE applications such as the ones you mentioned do require kde related processes to run. Unfortunately there is no way to stop these processes from running

answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:21

chad

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 02:20

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You could try something like:

sudo update-rc.d -f insertnameofservice remove

See also How-To: Managing services with update-rc.d

answered Dec 12 '12 at 02:20

Christoph Stich

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Stop KDE services from running

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