HI.

I'm here asking for help. After upgrading to KDE 5 I notice that my laptop is noticeably slower. After installing the process monitor I see this:

I see that korgac is consumming a lot of CPU (15%) and I whole bunch of akonadi related processes that are also using between 1 to 10% of CPU power.

I would really like to kill them or, better yet, uninstall them. But it seems that whenever I tried to uninstall akonadi or korganizer kde-standard goes out the window as well and I don't want that. (I'm assuming kde-standard is the entire desktop environment, but I couldn't find confirmation online)

killall does nothing
And neither does akonadictl stop

I'm running debian testing.

I would love to post a picture of my system monitor for you to see but I don't know how in this forum.

I would really appreciate some help as I need to do some processor intensive tasks and this is killing me.

kde-standard is just a meta-package, it is not the entire desktop. Its removal won't cause the removal of the entire desktop at all. You could use kde-plasma-desktop instead to get a more minimal Plasma, and install any desired software after.

But uninstalling akonadi/kdepim/korganizer is fine here, as the removal of the meta-package won't break anything.

Thanks. I figured it out yesterday. The reason why I thought It would is because according to Debian Packages webpage for the package, it lists kde-plasma-desktop as part of it. So eithere the webpage is wrong or I misinterpreted something.

Point is my computer is now faster than ever. I just reinstalled the individual programs that i wanted back, and was done.

Thanks!

aarelovich wrote:Thanks. I figured it out yesterday. The reason why I thought It would is because according to Debian Packages webpage for the package, it lists kde-plasma-desktop as part of it. So eithere the webpage is wrong or I misinterpreted something.

Point is my computer is now faster than ever. I just reinstalled the individual programs that i wanted back, and was done.

Thanks!

that makes sense yeah, glad that it's back on its feet!

I also using latest version 22.04 but it works fine

if you like to fast your laptop do these things
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workspace behavior:-
1. increase animation speed to instant

2. open terminal
type sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
in the end of the script type: vm.swappiness=10
save the script
3. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false
this line disable all animations if you want (run in terminal)

4. sudo nano etc/fstab
add noatime
Like this ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

5. you can do one more thing you can disable all desktop effects
search desktop effetcs and untick all the effects

this make your laptop faster