[SOLVED] Trimming unneeded Startup processes

[Orbmiser]

Curious as like to trim out not needed process to keep things slim and less resources required.

Running Cinnamon 14 and noticed in system monitor things I deselected in applets or haven't run and are showing up.

1)bluetooth-applet - Have it de-selected but shows running 12mb
2)Nemo - Not running on desktop but still taking 30mb.
Have end process and then run Nemo and seems fine why is it there booting into fresh desktop?

Don't need bluetooth I guess I could uninstall it? And don't know about Nemo and why it needs to run in background?
As end the process and then start nemo and seems to load just as fast.

Any others I can do away with? All the others look like they are needed or ones I run at startup.

[bwat47]

Nemo is the file manager, and runs in the background as a daemon, so it launches faster when you open the file manager. In addition nemo is what draws the desktop icons afiak.

[Orbmiser]

Hmmm weird draws desktop icons seems strange to me. But is what it is.
Tho I don't show desktop icons.

Almost tried to remove Bluetooth applet but didn't look right so canceled.

sudo apt-get remove gnome-bluetooth
[sudo] password for orbmiser:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cinnamon gnome-bluetooth gnome-user-share mint-meta-cinnamon mint-meta-cinnamon-dvd
nemo nemo-fileroller nemo-share
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.8 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Why it needs to remove things that have nothing to do with bluetooth is beyond me.

Still Learning and figuring things out as I go.

[xenopeek]

You can disable the bluetooth daemon by overriding its configuration, like so:

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echo manual | sudo tee -a /etc/init/bluetooth.override

After reboot you will see the bluetoothd process isn't running.

Nemo draws the desktop and regardless of you having a wallpaper or icons on your desktop, you'll have it running.

[Orbmiser]

Thanks for that looks like it switches it to manual?
And is persistent on reboots?

A Lotsa to Learn.
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[xenopeek]

Yup, persistent between reboots. It means it won't be started automatically, but manually (so you can start it with a command like "sudo start bluetooth"). You can also stop it once, not persistent between reboots, with "sudo stop bluetooth".

You can see status of all Upstart processes with "initctl list".

[Orbmiser]

Thanks for the help!
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[Orbmiser]

Yup, persistent between reboots. It means it won't be started automatically, but manually (so you can start it with a command like "sudo start bluetooth"). You can also stop it once, not persistent between reboots, with "sudo stop bluetooth".

You can see status of all Upstart processes with "initctl list".

Nope doesn't seem to be so as showing there and just noticed it as forgot to check when I did the command.
And didn't check after rebooting.

echo manual | sudo tee -a /etc/init/bluetooth.override

And is back!

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Also if I can disable gsd-Printer, gnome-screensaver as just have monitors dim after 30 and no printer hooked up.

[xenopeek]

How do you mean it is back? The bluetooth daemon is not back, and that is what you disabled. I thought you had already managed to remove the bluetooth applet, my mistake. The bluetooth applet and bluetooth daemon are two separate programs.

To most easily disable the bluetooth applet, run the following command first:

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sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Then go to Menu -> Preferences -> Startup Applications, and you can now disable "Bluetooth Manager" in the Startup Applications (its hidden by default, and unhidden by the above command).

[Orbmiser]

Thank you kind sir! Your a Peach! or is it a Mint?
And very patient person with a deep well of Linux workings.
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