I wish to disable Akonadi, Nepomuk, and Strigi absolutely forever. I have tried to understand previous notes but could not. Is there a simple way to do this? I am an unsophisticated user.

Unless you are using KDE 4.7, then the UI option to disable the use of Akonadi by the Plasma clocks will not be available. You can alter Plasma's configuration file, steps are available in other threads on the forum.

For disabling Nepomuk and Strigi, you can use the Desktop Search panel in System Settings.

Note that you may experience degraded functionality as a result of this. This will include the limited availability of file metadata in Dolphin, limitations in the configurability of Plasma activities and a general inability to use KDE PIM applications.

I do not mind the degradation of the things you mention, as I do not use any of them. I am using KDE 4.2.4. You say that the method of disabling Akonadi that you refer to applies only to a later version. Is there a way of disabling Akonadi 4.2.4?

bcooksley wrote:Unless you are using KDE 4.7, then the UI option to disable the use of Akonadi by the Plasma clocks will not be available.<snip>

using 4.7 and looked in systemsettings (Personal Info -> KDE resources, and service manager) and could not find it, running rc 2

update: in 4.7 its digital clock settings -> calendar -> diplay events

I still ask the question, how can I disable Akonadi in KDE 4.2.4? Mr. Cooksley and Google01103 discussed KDE 4.7, but it did not seem that the action could be achieved there, if I understood. The question remains, how can a service such as Akonadi, which takes a long time initializing itself and ultimately fails, and which I would not wish to use anyway, be disabled? It did not exist, to my knowledge, in earlier versions of KDE, and its invocation should be optional.

try these:
1) remove all packages with akonadi in the name, there will be dependencies if you also have kdepim installed and maybe other dependency issues with other packages such as plasma-addons (because of the plasma/widget clocks)
2) add to autostart an executable script file with the command:

akonadictl stop

, if you do this the plasma clocks will restart akonadi if you load them

Thanks, google01103. I will try this, but I will have to find out what some of these things are, I suppose by reading some documents such as the slackware book. Some of us are more ignorant than you imagine. I will reply when I have tried it.

one other way is to remove all the Akonade compatability resources used see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Ak ... startup.3F if I understand this correctly it will be systemsettings -> personal information -> Akonadi resources configurations -> delete all those configured

fyi there are other threads/post out there with people trying to do the same
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=91678
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... di-755855/
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=38925
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=83054