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gregfrankenstein

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Registered: 2015-09-12

Posts: 26

Do I need every GVfs daemon?

I use LXDE, so I have GVfs installed for trash support and easy disk mounting.  I understand when I see daemons running such as gvfsd, gvfsd-fuse, and gvfsd-trash, and I'll even let gvfsd-metadata slide because it's vague and I assume it's doing something useful.  But some other processes will start running at seemingly random intervals, and I can't help but feel like they're superfluous, such as gvfsd-network, gvfsd-dnssd, and gvfs2-electricboogaloo.  Okay, I made that last one up.

Admittedly, a small part of it is a tinfoil hat concern, because for all I know gvfsd-http is calling home somewhere, but mostly it just seems like bloat.  I'm not mounting anything over a network, so why have something running 24/7 just in case?  GVfs doesn't appear to have any sort of configuration, so I ask you, the Arch users, the masters of keeping it simple, if there's a way to only start the daemons I need.  Maybe a poorly documented config file somewhere or a systemd tweak.  Until then, I'll be opening up a task manager periodically and squashing processes like a GNOME-based earwig.

Docbroke

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From: India

Registered: 2015-06-13

Posts: 1,475

Re: Do I need every GVfs daemon?

Simple answer is "NO". Just remove all those that you don't need ( you can always reinstall them if required). I have no gvfs on my system. Try and learn.

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gregfrankenstein

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Registered: 2015-09-12

Posts: 26

Re: Do I need every GVfs daemon?

That doesn't appear to be possible.  They all come shipped with the gvfs package.  Hence my mild vexation, as it appears to be all-or-nothing.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Do I need every GVfs daemon?

For the record, I have gvfs installed but the only gvfs related processes running on my system are gvfsd and gvfsd-fuse. But, I am not using a DE, rather i3 wm. So, it sure is possible to run parts of gvfs without running everything else. You should check if lxde is spawning gvfsd-http for some reason.