Hint: How to easily stop Geary background service

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If you use Geary, which last I checked was the only usable e-mail client for mobile GNU/Linux, you may have noticed that, if you close the Geary window, Geary continues running in the background so that it can periodically check for mails and notify you of them. This makes sense, but sometimes you may want to really close it. Then this menu entry will do wonders:

[kevin@plasma-mobile ~]$ cat .local/share/applications/Geary\ Killer.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=geary -q
GenericName=Stops background Geary
Icon=mail-mark-junk
Name=Geary Killer
NoDisplay=false
Path=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Just use that whenever you want Geary to really go away. It will gracefully quit it with the geary -q command Geary itself provides.

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Note that, at least on Plasma Mobile, I cannot get the startup notification to fully get away (no matter what I set in StartupNotify), I have to use the “show desktop” button to manually close it every time.