If I login as user rose via lightdm into gnome desktop, I see immediately some running kde5 processes: root@condor:/root(4)# ps awux | grep kde root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:17 0:00 [kdevtmpfs] rose 2950 0.0 0.5 615888 37284 ? Sl 12:20 0:00 /usr/bin/kded5 rose 2995 0.0 0.1 169980 9820 ? Ss 12:20 0:00 kdeinit5: Running... root 5562 0.0 0.0 15412 920 pts/1 S+ 14:03 0:00 grep --colour=auto kde root@condor:/root(5)# ps awux | grep klaunch rose 2996 0.0 0.5 672796 40472 ? Sl 12:20 0:00 /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/klauncher --fd=8 root 5564 0.0 0.0 15412 864 pts/1 S+ 14:03 0:00 grep --colour=auto klaunch I have empty autostart folders: root@condor:/root(10)# ll /home/rose/.config/autostart/ total 0 root@condor:/root(11)# ll /home/rose/.config/autostart-scripts/ total 0 I found two similar issues but without solution in the web: http://forums.drivepe.com/threads/using-xdm-gnome-why-is-kded5-running.161583/ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=205399
ls /etc/xdg/autostart/ grep OnlyShowIn /etc/xdg/autostart/* please (real bug-wranglers, feel free to move this where appropriate still whenever)