Hi. I am running Fedora 43 with KDE on a Framework 13 laptop. For the last week, when I first login after a reboot my default browser opens and goes a google sign in page. I believe this is related to some Akonadi service. I really do not want this to happen ever. Honestly, I’m not even 100% what all Akonadi does / is doing and if I’m able to remove it, parts of it, or can I just stop this activity.
I looked at Kmail and while I never use it, at some point I must have tied an old gmail to it. I removed that, but I still get this action at startup. I am used to windows doing things I don’t like at startup, and would really like to find the way to control this / prevent it. I’m going to reboot and get the actual page it goes to.
Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas on what I can try? How much of Akonadi can I remove? I appreciate you all. Thanks.
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This is the page that loads.
this probably means you tried to tie something in korganizer to google (calendar, drive, etc) and because google keep changing how users login then it started to fail at some point.
my advice is never try to tie anything to anything from google, ever.
currently locked out my github because i used gmail to create the account and just logged in via the “google” button for too long.
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It was this that led me to start avoiding using Akonadi, and generally led me to feel bad about KDE Plasma in general…
Some years ago, I used Event Calendar - and it was brilliant… but then Google started ‘jiggling’ things around, and changing security protocols - and they generally just want to bully everyone… so now I only use it in my phone, or in a browser.
Take Google out of the equation, and everything is shiny again.
Get a new (or a couple of new) emails other than Gmail.
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Yes. As mentioned I did tie a gmail into KMail. I really don’t know why as I’m almost completely free of them now. I was probably just messing around.
But now the question is how do I get rid of it. Will removing KMail do it? If I remove Akonadi will it mess other stuff up? It’s hard to get a straight answer on that? I deleted some config files in ~/.local/.config/.akonadi but they just come back.
Yep. I’m free of Google which is one of the things that makes me want to make sure this doesn’t keep popping up on me.
Any ideas on how to stop this behavior from Akonadi?
i would start looking with a kfind search on file contents that contain “google” in both ~/.config and ~/.local to see everywhere it is referenced and go from there.
when winding thru all these text files it can be handy in dolphin to activate the info panel F11 and make the preview big enough to read the text so you can quickly flip thru the files without having to open them in kate to see what they are.
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That’s a tough question, I had quite a drastic clean up of my USER data somewhere between Plasma 5 and Plasma 6…
So I’d start by doing mv .config .configOLD then log out and in again - see if it’s clear. `~/.local’ might also have some relevant stuff, I’m sorry - but I’m not energetic enough to work it out right now.
Then take your time and be careful about importing and setting up again. I aim to copy half back each time, and the first few copies have no issues - then I get left with the stuff I’m not so sure about which takes a few minutes longer.
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Good ideas. I’ll start giving it a go.
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Thank you. I’ll see what I can find.
Thanks to you both! I’ve got it sorted with your help.
So previously, I found the Akonadi config files in ~//config/akonadi. There was one with the name google and it still had my gmail listed in it. I deleted it and it came back on the reboot.
Then I just edited the file to remove that email address. It still came back.
Then I took the advice and looked a little further. There are akonadi config files just in ~/.config, and I hadn’t seen those before. I looked at those and found mention of the email address in a couple of files and deleted those files. After the reboot, I no longer get the pop up to the google login page.
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