On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 12:26:47AM -0600, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Is it possible that there are left-over tasks running that were created by another desktop, that might be changing this setting? I wonder, because when I used to reinstall my OpenSuSE system, to get GUI working I had to choose KDE(4) or Gnome, and since I really wanted to ultimately install Trinity, I chose Gnome. Once Trinity was working my system was amazingly slow, and after a lot of hairpulling I discovered that Gnome's file indexing subsystem was starting, even though I wasn't using Gnome; I had to delete those Gnome components. Maybe something similar is happening on your machine?
Modern Gnome is to classic Gnome as KDE 4 was to classic KDE, only more so. It puts its tentacles into everything, and like a vampire squid, sucks the life out of your desktop.
"What do you mean, not everyone has a $20K laptop with 64GB of RAM, which they religiously shut down at least twice a day?"
- the Gnome and Red Hat developers
Speaking of expensive laptops, I'm thinking of starting a GoFundMe to by me a Luvaglio.
https://www.topteny.com/top-10-most-expensive-laptops-in-the-world/