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  • How to disable tracker.

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 03:40:35 2019
    Tracker is a KDE app, but GNOME uses it as well, to run Totem, for
    example. And Xfce is a fork of GNOME. So Tracker can't be completely uninstalled. It can however be disabled, by masking systemctl services
    for the current user. To do this, the procedure at

    https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/how-to-completely-disable-tracker.html

    worked for me, but read all the cautions first.

    HTH.

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 04:44:47 2019
    On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 14:40:35 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Tracker is a KDE app, but GNOME uses it as well, to run Totem, for
    example. And Xfce is a fork of GNOME. So Tracker can't be completely uninstalled. It can however be disabled, by masking systemctl services
    for the current user. To do this, the procedure at

    https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/how-to-completely-disable-tracker.html

    worked for me, but read all the cautions first.

    Sounds like a lot of work to me, and probably will not work on a
    xfce install only.

    $ systemctl list-units --all | grep tracker
    $

    No tracker service file found

    How about a process:
    # ps aux | grep track
    root 5039 0.0 0.0 9040 816 pts/11 S+ 22:35 0:00 grep --color --ignore-case track

    Nope. My DE

    $ echo $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
    xfce

    How did I disable it, you ask,
    xfce4-settings-manager->Session and Startup->Application Autostart->
    and disabled all the User folders update and any Tracker entries.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Dec 23 16:04:45 2019
    On 22/12/19 3:44 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
    How did I disable it, you ask,
    xfce4-settings-manager->Session and Startup->Application Autostart->
    and disabled all the User folders update and any Tracker entries.

    Sounds as though that may be a better method. I used to do it by
    editing a config file, but the file is now different.

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