• How should I remove KDE desktop from one of my systems ?

    From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Monday, December 18, 2023 03:09:14
    I have a backup workstation that I have been upgrading for years.
    It goes back at least to Mageia 4, and in those early years
    it used the KDE desktop.

    I abandoned the KDE desktop in favor of wayland perhaps in
    Mageia 7, but following my recent upgrade to Mageia 9
    I have been having problem with the OS freezing up for
    periods of variable length. Use of ps allowed me to
    find baloo indexing (which I had forgotten was on the system)
    and disabling that help things run better. But problems
    remain.

    There are many KDE desktop rpms on the system, and some
    kde executables are running, such as kded5, sycoca, and
    akonadi. These seem to be part of the problem, particularly
    the indexing programs such as akonadi and kded5.

    Can I simply create a list of all rpms recognizable as
    kde rpms and remove them with urpme or rpm -e ?

    I will probably install Mageia 9 or 10 to a new disk slice
    with over 100GB, but if I can get by with remaining lazy
    and just erasing kde rpms I would like to stay lazy.

    Opinions if this would work ?

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Monday, December 18, 2023 04:22:13
    Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com

    On 12/17/23 19:09, Jim wrote:
    I have a backup workstation that I have been upgrading for years.
    It goes back at least to Mageia 4, and in those early years
    it used the KDE desktop.

    I abandoned the KDE desktop in favor of wayland perhaps in
    Mageia 7, but following my recent upgrade to Mageia 9
    I have been having problem with the OS freezing up for
    periods of variable length. Use of ps allowed me to
    find baloo indexing (which I had forgotten was on the system)
    and disabling that help things run better. But problems
    remain.

    There are many KDE desktop rpms on the system, and some
    kde executables are running, such as kded5, sycoca, and
    akonadi. These seem to be part of the problem, particularly
    the indexing programs such as akonadi and kded5.

    Can I simply create a list of all rpms recognizable as
    kde rpms and remove them with urpme or rpm -e ?

    I will probably install Mageia 9 or 10 to a new disk slice
    with over 100GB, but if I can get by with remaining lazy
    and just erasing kde rpms I would like to stay lazy.

    Opinions if this would work ?

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    Wait until next year when KDE will release Plasma 6
    with Wayland support. And some parts of your post seem
    senseless to me. KDE and Wayland are not competing Desktop
    Enviroments.
    Not that I am using Mageia so wait a bit and
    someone will address your ridiculuous idea of removing
    KDE's Plasma 5 in favor of Wayland which is only a
    replacement for X.

    bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2023.12- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.10



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