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(a)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.
(section "OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn Keys"), I was considering changing:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE;
to
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;
in
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker*.desktop
to make sure tracker is not started for any of my KDE users on my systems.
Roderick