| I tried to change window managers What you probably did was switch from a 'desktop environment' to (just) a window manager. A desktop environment includes ma

| I tried to change window managers What you probably did was switch from a 'desktop environment' to (just) a window manager. A desktop environment includes many processes that are started on login and run in the background (e.g. dbus, pulse-audio, ssh-agent, gpg-agent, gnome-power-manager, etc).