I manually run the Discover icon from my taskbar, I don’t really want DiscoverNotifier to be running at all. I ran my Discover today and noticed DiscoverNotifier was running even after I exited Discover..so acting like a daemon or service. So how can I prevent DiscoverNotifier from running at all?
I decided to remove the package, I did so and it went away with no complaints about deps (OS is Fedora)
sudo dnf rm plasma-discover-notifier
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Removing:
plasma-discover-notifier x86_64 6.5.4-1.fc43 updates 329.4 KiB
Transaction Summary:
Removing: 1 package
Also, I noticed from “smem” that it uses a lot of memory, why?
smem
PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS
2631 mos /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifi 0 60980 67489 149840
15566 mos /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 0 107884 121458 202788
15642 mos /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 0 146708 167891 262544
15296 mos /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 0 276864 307358 445864
2197 mos /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-r 0 288560 317630 443936
That seems like a lot of ram for just a daemon that notifies the user of discover updates. It won’t affect me since I’ve now removed the entire package but I was just wondering.