#Toptracker tracking interval software

#Toptracker tracking interval software

Much more of the zeitgeist tracking software had been installed unknown to me, and so I chose complete removal for all except the zeitgeist shared libraries which looks to be way too embedded in the OS to remove safely. Using Synaptic, I selected 'mark for complete removal' for 'tracker', and for 'zeitgeist' (kin to using the purge command which is supposed to remove associated components and config files for the program selected). Paste the following into the file, save and exit: Enter the directory ~/.config/autostart, create it if it does not exist.Do the same for /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop if you want.

Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop file with root privileges ( sudo -i gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop).Database for first class objects allows using tracker's database for storage and implementation of First Class Objects and the Gnome 3.0ĭisabling tracker for globally (for all users).Extensible metadata database for apps like gedit and rhythmbox which need to add custom metadata to files.Tag database for doing keyword tagging of any object.Indexer for desktop search (for more details see this spec : ).Highly sophisticated, innovative and integrated desktop. Tracker is a synergy of technologies that are designed to provide a Gsettings set .Files enable-monitors false # Default: true Gsettings set .Files crawling-interval -2 # Default: -1 You can use the following script ( source): echo -e ' Hidden=true ' | sudo tee -append /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop > /dev/null Scripting solution to disable it permanently on Ubuntu 16.04Īs mention in the comments, files mention in this post no longer exist in 16.04.