i used top and found that kdeinit ate up a lot of CPU resources.

i don't want it to be initially started......so how can i do to prevent
it from initially started? do i have to modify any startup scripts?
(and where's the script files?)


I am a newbie to Linux and using Debian Libranet, thanks!

Jimmy

It's part of KDE. Many of the KDE programs appear to run under the name 'kdeinit'. To get rid of it, run something other than KDE.

Or when your not using KDE and you only run an app that requires kde like noatun or amarok, it will start kdeinit. Just that once your done using the app kdeinit continues to run. So just kill it with
killall -9 kdeinit.

actually i don't want to "remove" it, i just want to boot the server without
the graphical user interface initially, but we might want to start it manually,
so that's why i don't want kde to be initially started......is there any way to
disable it from initially startup?



Jimmy

i just need to know in which files the debian libranet linux
will initially start the kde....so that i can disable it, then i
can boot up my server without graphical stuff, thank you!


Jimmy

Set your runlevel default in the /etc/inittab file.. And why would you need X on a server?

uh....what if i don't want to change the default run level??

can anybody tell me who's gonna call the startkde when boot up so that i can
comment the line out?



Jimmy

You do, then you don't.. and then you do... and now you don't.. make up your mind? If you don't want KDE or X started at bootup, well, you change the default runlevel to 3 or something rather than keeping it on 5. It will start up all the same services except for X, which loads KDE.

If you don't want KDE started but want X loaded at boot time... well, change your desktop or window manager. Cause the only way for you to stop using the kdeinit process is to not use KDE. And again, if this is a server and its only purpose is to be a server, not a desktop, don't even use X or a window manager/desktop. Its only going to take away space and resources for those using it as a server.

hey, I have a related question here.

I've recently come across prelink and read in some gentoo document that after prelinking, one could disable kdeinit by adding a line (KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true") in a certain config-file (/etc/env.d/99kde-env). I'm running debian and I've tried to prelink the system. The thing is that that particular file referred to by the gentoo documentation does not exist in my Debian installation and I assume it's a gentoo-only config file. Anyway; is there a way to tell a debian/kde installation to not load kdeinit, cause it is prelinked