Stop KDE services from running
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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?
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