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Why would software just installed on system increase memory usage?

XFCE is not suppose to start/load KDE components and vice versa ...

It's not just installed, it actually got started based on your process lists. I don't know how bsd and xfce specifically work in this case, but some educated guesses:

- depending on whether you restarted between tests or not, DE shutdown may not clean up all services

- xfce may have a list of supported service alternatives and mate-screensaver was started as the expected-preferred one

- some services may be registered to be stated together with the GUI through the .desktop files, which may explain kalendarc

But as I said - just guessing here.

I have done full poweroff(8) before each DE test.

I did not configured them to start.

For some reason these DEs started them - do not ask me why - ask these DEs creators.

Packages on FreeBSD are rather 'vanilla' - only ported to work properly on FreeBSD - so its pointless to ask FreeBSD port maintainers here.

The only thing I configured to start were in FreeBSD main /etc/rc.conf config file:

    % cat /etc/rc.conf
    hostname="freebsd"
    ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
    sshd_enable="YES"
    moused_enable="YES"
    powerd_enable="YES"
    dumpdev="AUTO"
    zfs_enable="YES"
    dbus_enable="YES"

Regards.

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