memory-leaks

commit d1d52e597260f9fbe0018786e7c9021af56eb0ba
parent 4c416127f6a188c320c0ff551d984162ffe9c460
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri,  3 Oct 2025 09:03:05 +0200

Note how to disable Akonadi

It's OK friend, you can stay on the disk; please just stop taking 5%
of my RAM and 20% of htop screen space unless I ask you to 🤝

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@@ -29,3 +29,21 @@ To make permanent, either:
   immediate application,
 - run the command /a second time/ with =--permanent=,
 - run ~firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent~.
+** Software
+*** Disable Akonadi
+Takes up RAM, clutters htop; no use for it.
+**** via configuration (symptom)
+1. ~akonadictl stop~
+2. set =StartServer=false= in =~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc=.
+
+Gave up at step 2: that file already existed, had some =[Sections]=,
+and I was too lazy to look up where =StartServer= should go.
+**** via reading [[https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Disabling_the_Akonadi_subsystem][the docs]]
+Insist on the /Digital Clock/ widget being a likely culprit, but the
+/Calendar Events/ option (as it is spelled here) is unchecked.
+**** via uninstallation
+~zypper remove --clean-deps akonadi~ shows some collaterals (sqlite3).
+**** via configuration (cause)
+Kudos [[https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/725548/kde-plasma-prevent-akonadi-stuff-from-being-launched-at-startup][MC68020]] for finding the culprit - kalendarac is the auto-started
+service that loads Akonadi.  Suppress with =Hidden=True= in
+=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/autostart/org.kde.kalendarac.desktop=.