Background Services

This module gives you an overview of the plugins of the background services manager, kded6. It's under System > Session in System Settings.

There are two types of service:

• Load-on-Demand Services: Started when they're needed. They're only listed for convenience, because you can't change them.
• Startup Services: Can be loaded when the desktop starts. The checkbox next to each one sets whether it's automatically loaded.

[!WARNING] Be careful when turning off services you don't know. Some are vital for the desktop, so don't turn them off unless you know what you're doing.

To change a service's status, select it in the list and use Start Service or Stop Service. Some services turn themselves off again when started by hand, if they aren't useful in the current environment.

The list can be filtered to All Services, Running or Not Running.

If you're turning something off here to work around an issue, please also report a bug about it.