Although I intend to investigate all the features tracker provides in MeeGo, I don't want to do it right now. And it was unpredictably taking up precious CPU cycles on this wee Atom N455, every drop of which is needed for processing multimedia happening "right now."
In /etc/xdg/autostart/ note the following files which start up tracker and other services after the system reaches runlevel 5: ............... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281 2011-04-14 04:30 anerley-account-starter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2619 2011-04-15 06:31 bluetooth-panel.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2135 2011-02-25 05:05 carrick.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4273 2011-04-27 04:55 evolution-alarm-notify.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5078 2011-04-26 05:16 gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4785 2011-04-26 05:16 gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3892 2011-04-26 05:16 gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7372 2011-03-16 16:44 gnome-screensaver.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2892 2011-04-14 04:43 gnome-settings-daemon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9052 2011-04-20 05:50 gpk-update-icon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365 2011-02-21 20:56 matchbox-panel.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1180 2011-04-20 04:34 meego-panel-myzone.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 608 2011-04-12 13:13 meego-power-icon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2010-09-29 00:43 messageserver.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2011-02-02 03:53 msyncd.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 2010-10-15 05:55 mthemedaemon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6296 2011-02-21 21:36 print-applet.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3459 2011-04-22 04:46 pulseaudio.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2011-02-16 18:46 sample-media-install.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 2011-04-27 07:03 syncevo-dbus-server.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2466 2011-04-27 05:56 tracker-miner-fs.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2256 2011-04-27 05:56 tracker-store.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4006 2011-02-21 20:56 user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop ............... To prevent these (or any other) global autostarts, place a small file in one's own autostart (see http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html#id2452149 ): ............... $ cat ~/.config/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop [Desktop Entry] Hidden=true Name=Tracker File System Miner $ cat ~/.config/autostart/tracker-store.desktop [Desktop Entry] Hidden=true Name=Tracker Store ............... Then log out/in or reboot. Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: So what can I expect to break with tracker not running on the netbook? Is it something that can run from a cron job or as a "screensaver" (so that it's busy when the desktop is idle, drawing pretty 3d-visualizations of the data it is collecting ). _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
