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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?

Gabriel
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  • I have the same issue and I have uninstalled KDE so lets hope for an answer to this issue. Because it seems to me the start-up process is never cleaned, or isn't cleaned well enough. – Goddard Dec 07 '12 at 20:09

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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.

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Ringtail
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  • No, this is not correct. Only a few services are shown here and the ones presumably left over from the KDE install do not show (nor do many others not related to KDE; this app is in fact quite simplistic and borderline useless for any need semi-advanced) – Gabriel Dec 09 '12 at 21:32
  • Thank you for the link tough, it looks like it has some very useful info. – Gabriel Dec 09 '12 at 21:33
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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

chad
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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

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