I'm running Fedora 29 with Plasma 5.14.5. I'm pretty new to KDE. I started with Gnome and used Cinnamon for a while.

I had been using Thunderbird for mail and after a few days with Plasma running I decided to load up Kontact and configure it so I could compare. As it turns out, Kontact and its bundle of programs is more than I need, so I want to stick with Thunderbird.

My problem is that since I configured Kontact my system now loads the Korganizer daemon, and the feed daemon, and Kontact starts automatically on every reboot. I can't figure out how to stop it.

I don't see any of these programs in the autostart settings in plasma. I can't find anything that says to load them in my ~/.kde directory. Can't find anything in /usr/share/autostart.

I'm lost. It's bugging the hell out of me and I want them gone. Can anyone tell me how to unconfigure or disable Kontact and everything that comes along with it?

Thanks!

The first thing you should try is disabling Akonadi, the subsystem that sort of drives the kdepim (Kontact & co.) suite.

https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Dis...nadi_subsystem

If that doesn't do the trick, open Kontact (the application that encompasses a bunch of related apps including Kmail) and find Configure Notifications in the Settings menu. Turn off all notifications for Kontact.

You can also right-click on your system tray and select System Tray Settings, and then select what entries you want to see and which you'd like to hide. Hide things like Korganizer and KMail and whatever else.

If stuff is still popping up here and there, go to System Settings (from your main application menu) and find the Startup and Shutdown category. Make sure that Kontact or KMail or kdepim-migrator (or whatever it might be called) isn't set to autostart upon login.

Finally, you could try removing kdepim to see if that suits. I'd be careful when doing that; I haven't tried it on Fedora in years, and I'm not sure what the dependencies are like now, so read carefully what is about to be removed before accepting (for instance, if removing kdepim also removes KDE, do not do it).

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I think that did the trick.

I went into Kontact config and basically just unchecked everything and then shut down the Akonadi server following the instructions in the link you shared. Everything seems to be good now.

Thanks for your help!