tracker in KDE

Martin Kho lists.kho at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 13:51:17 UTC 2012


On Thursday 01 March 2012 10:32:58 Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 27/11/11 18:26, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 11:21:20 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >>> I don't know anything about tracker,
> >>> but your throw-away remark about NetworkManager seemed rather odd to me.
> >>> 
> >>> Surely NM starts under KDE as well?
> >>> In fact NM seems to be a more-or-less essential part of Fedora nowadays?
> >>> Is there any alternative?
> >> 
> >> I think he was referring to "nm-applet", the NetworkManager applet for
> >> GNOME, which in GNOME 2 times appeared in /etc/xdg/autostart but had
> >> "OnlyShowIn=GNOME" so it doesn't start in KDE.  (GNOME 3 doesn't use
> >> it anymore except in fallback mode AFAIK.)
> > 
> > That's the one I had in mind. And it would be grat if tracker could get
> > the
> > same settings. otherwise I have tracker and nepomuk/strigi cluttering my
> > hard disk.
> 
> So just to follow this up, we are now seeing tracker-store sometimes
> taking over 3GB memory on some systems, with poor consequences for other
> processes. I wonder if this is a bug or whether its actually doing
> something useful?
> 
> I'm also wondering if its sensible to stop tracker from starting in KDE?
> I could submit a BZ requesting that they not start in KDE, but what
> happens if someone runs eg totem or shotwell which seem to have a
> dependency on tracker? Do those apps start the tracker processes on the
> fly or do they just miss the tracker functionality?
> 
> Oh, I see someone got to the BZ nearly two months before me:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771601
> 
> Does anyone have a view on this? Maybe we are just hitting a bug in
> tracker-store and it would be ok to have it running if the bug were not
> there?
> 

Hi Roderick,

I don't want to start a rant, but you can use the following workaround:

1. cp /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-* to ~/.config/autostart/
2. Edit each copied tracker desktop file:
    change: X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true to
                 X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
3. Open System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown (-> Autostart)
4. Unckeck all tracker Desktop Files

Now the tracker is diabled, it will not be started. 

Hope this helps for the time being.

Martin Kho

> Thanks.
> 
> Roderick
> 
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