I removed xfce and i wanted to try different DE.
So i chose budgie and i installed using the eos package list.
But after installation i feel like i’m still using vanilla gnome.
when i right click on desktop and choose system settings nothing works.BUT,when i search settings on the search i get the gnome settings(GTK4) and the theming is still adwaita.
And budgie is eating ram than normal(I’ve used budgie before on the same lap with almost same condition).
Plz help.
Install ps_mem and then run sudo ps_mem to see what is consuming memory.
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Private + Shared = RAM used Program
112.0 KiB + 154.0 KiB = 266.0 KiB fusermount3
404.0 KiB + 520.0 KiB = 924.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
628.0 KiB + 772.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB xdg-permission-store
668.0 KiB + 824.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB gsd-screensaver-proxy
672.0 KiB + 962.0 KiB = 1.6 MiB gvfsd-metadata
768.0 KiB + 958.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB gsd-a11y-settings
860.0 KiB + 1.0 MiB = 1.8 MiB gsd-rfkill
908.0 KiB + 1.0 MiB = 1.9 MiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
976.0 KiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.1 MiB power-profiles-daemon
576.0 KiB + 1.6 MiB = 2.1 MiB avahi-daemon (2)
1.0 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.2 MiB gvfsd-fuse
1.0 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.2 MiB gsd-usb-protection
1.0 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 2.2 MiB xdg-document-portal
1.1 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.4 MiB at-spi-bus-launcher
1.1 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 2.5 MiB at-spi2-registryd
1.2 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.6 MiB gsd-housekeeping
1.2 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.7 MiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
1.2 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 2.8 MiB gvfsd
1.4 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 3.0 MiB dconf-service
1.3 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 3.0 MiB gsd-sound
1.1 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.1 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
1.2 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.1 MiB gsd-wwan
1.5 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 3.3 MiB accounts-daemon
992.0 KiB + 2.5 MiB = 3.4 MiB systemd-timesyncd
1.4 MiB + 2.0 MiB = 3.5 MiB gsd-sharing
1.4 MiB + 2.1 MiB = 3.6 MiB zeitgeist-daemon
1.7 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.7 MiB bluetoothd
1.6 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 3.8 MiB gsd-disk-utility-notify
1.7 MiB + 2.1 MiB = 3.8 MiB goa-identity-service
1.5 MiB + 2.4 MiB = 3.9 MiB gsd-datetime
1.4 MiB + 2.7 MiB = 4.1 MiB systemd-logind
1.6 MiB + 2.6 MiB = 4.2 MiB gsd-print-notifications
1.8 MiB + 2.6 MiB = 4.4 MiB upowerd
2.2 MiB + 2.6 MiB = 4.8 MiB gsd-smartcard
2.6 MiB + 2.9 MiB = 5.5 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon
2.3 MiB + 3.3 MiB = 5.6 MiB sudo
2.8 MiB + 3.7 MiB = 6.5 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
2.7 MiB + 4.1 MiB = 6.8 MiB gsd-printer
3.1 MiB + 4.1 MiB = 7.2 MiB xdg-desktop-portal
3.1 MiB + 4.2 MiB = 7.3 MiB systemd-udevd
3.4 MiB + 4.3 MiB = 7.7 MiB zeitgeist-fts
3.3 MiB + 4.6 MiB = 7.8 MiB lightdm (2)
3.9 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 8.9 MiB gnome-session-binary
4.2 MiB + 5.4 MiB = 9.6 MiB dbus-daemon (3)
4.2 MiB + 5.7 MiB = 9.9 MiB wpa_supplicant
5.0 MiB + 6.4 MiB = 11.4 MiB zeitgeist-datahub
5.6 MiB + 6.7 MiB = 12.3 MiB udisksd
5.8 MiB + 6.8 MiB = 12.6 MiB colord
5.2 MiB + 8.6 MiB = 13.8 MiB evolution-source-registry
7.6 MiB + 8.9 MiB = 16.4 MiB budgie-extras-daemon
7.6 MiB + 9.0 MiB = 16.5 MiB budgie-polkit-dialog
7.7 MiB + 9.1 MiB = 16.8 MiB gsd-keyboard
7.8 MiB + 9.4 MiB = 17.1 MiB windowshufflerdaemon
7.9 MiB + 9.5 MiB = 17.4 MiB previews_daemon
5.3 MiB + 12.2 MiB = 17.5 MiB evolution-calendar-factory
4.6 MiB + 13.0 MiB = 17.6 MiB appimagelauncherd
8.2 MiB + 9.6 MiB = 17.7 MiB gsd-wacom
8.0 MiB + 9.7 MiB = 17.7 MiB xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
7.4 MiB + 10.5 MiB = 17.9 MiB NetworkManager
4.4 MiB + 14.1 MiB = 18.5 MiB systemd (3)
8.5 MiB + 10.4 MiB = 18.9 MiB gsd-color
5.6 MiB + 13.3 MiB = 18.9 MiB evolution-addressbook-factory
8.7 MiB + 10.4 MiB = 19.0 MiB gsd-xsettings
8.9 MiB + 11.1 MiB = 20.0 MiB gsd-media-keys
8.9 MiB + 11.2 MiB = 20.0 MiB gsd-power
10.3 MiB + 11.4 MiB = 21.6 MiB systemd-journald
11.7 MiB + 14.2 MiB = 25.8 MiB pipewire-media-session
11.6 MiB + 14.3 MiB = 25.9 MiB tracker-miner-fs-3
8.8 MiB + 17.1 MiB = 26.0 MiB baloo_file [deleted]
7.6 MiB + 19.0 MiB = 26.6 MiB goa-daemon
10.4 MiB + 17.3 MiB = 27.7 MiB org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-desktop-view
9.7 MiB + 19.2 MiB = 28.9 MiB budgie-screensaver
11.9 MiB + 17.4 MiB = 29.3 MiB budgie-daemon
11.8 MiB + 18.0 MiB = 29.8 MiB nm-applet
14.8 MiB + 15.3 MiB = 30.1 MiB polkitd
14.7 MiB + 22.0 MiB = 36.8 MiB gnome-terminal-server
18.3 MiB + 18.5 MiB = 36.8 MiB zsh
18.2 MiB + 20.1 MiB = 38.4 MiB pipewire
20.9 MiB + 21.7 MiB = 42.6 MiB pipewire-pulse
15.1 MiB + 30.9 MiB = 46.0 MiB previews_creator
15.5 MiB + 31.8 MiB = 47.3 MiB evolution-alarm-notify
25.2 MiB + 32.3 MiB = 57.5 MiB budgie-panel
47.0 MiB + 91.5 MiB = 138.4 MiB budgie-wm
45.3 MiB + 105.4 MiB = 150.7 MiB Xorg
160.6 MiB + 206.4 MiB = 367.0 MiB easyeffects
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1.7 GiB
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Don’t mind the easyeffects.
Even without easyeffects usage is high
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I don’t see this as a memory problem. What are your hardware specs?
inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog
1.3 GiB at idle seems pretty high to me.
You have a lot of strange stuff there though. You seem to be running programs from multiple DEs. Do you have more than one DE installed?
Yeah I previously installed xfce and kde but now only budgie.
Please help.
Switching desktops requires some care. How did you remove xfce and plasma?
Have you tried removing orphans?
Oh How to do that?
Please refer archwiki regarding this.
Are xfce and kde based processes still running on my system 
?
I am not familiar enough with budgie to know which of those processes belong to budgie but at the very least you shouldn’t be running baloo.
You also have a number of other things running which are consuming memory that I don’t think would be in a base install.
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How can i remove KDE(atleast) completely from my system?
sudo pacman -Rc plasma
Then remove orphans as described above.
sudo pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns -
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
You need sudo in front of both pacman commands.
sudo pacman -Qtdq | sudo pacman -Rns -
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