My Ubuntu 12.04 had been getting annoyingly slow during the day..
So I decided to have a terminal running top in one of my monitors at all times. I noticed that gwibber-service - gwibber is a ubuntu default application - was poping up in the top of cpu usage plenty of times.
I deleted it.
Now days after its deletion I keep seeing the process gwibber-service popping up! I kill it by its PID , but what I really want to know is why that process is running there after the application was deleted. Of course how to completely remove it won't hurt
[Update] Reverse dependancy on gwibber-service check shows these packages: gwibber-service
gwibber:i386
ubuntu-sugar-remix
desktopcouch
ubuntu-desktop
I think desktopcouch is responsible for this as it is what ubuntu uses to synchronize (thunderbird, ubuntu one, social media..). I really want to know why this part of gwibber is not deleted with standard uninstall. Should I report somewhere?
sudo apt-get purge gwibber*
should do the job.gwibber
package and didn't use the star or explicitly uninstall the the others.purge
command to my answer after seeing your comment and remembering that it should be used to remove configuration files also?