Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Disabling Beagle is well covered at
> > <http://en.opensuse.org/Disabling_Beagle>  It can even be partially
> > disabled; such as not indexing Firefox traffic, etc...
> > The Beagle FAQ <http://beagle-project.org/Troubleshooting_CPU> is also a
> > good read.
> I'm also one of the old guys who deactivate Beagle owing to bad
> experience in the past. I might be tempted to revisit that
> decision, since a search feature for one's files is of obvious merit.
> Since you seem to know Beagle well: What is a recommended search
> frontend when one does neither use GNOME nor KDE?

I only know in GNOME, but the "Desktop Search" dialog seems to 'just
work' if you set a key binding in System / File System / Search

I also frequently use the web interface, just because I'm frequently in
a browser,  which is http://localhost:4000/ provided you have it
enabled.  It is my default page so Ctrl-T takes me there in a new tab.
Sounds odd, but it is handy.  You enable the web interface via -
beagle-config Networking WebInterface true
 - it is not enabled by default and only listens on localhost.  It is
like having your own personal Google.

Also as mentioned in the other message, it is a really good idea to tell
Beagle to not index your downloads directory.  Otherwise it receives a
constant stream of notices from inotify that the file has been modified
which wakes it up.  But until the file is completely downloaded you
don't care about its contents.

<quote>
One thing to check is the search preferences: System / File System /
Search in the GNOME menu, then Search / Preferences in the "Desktop
Search" application.  I have a directory to which I usually download
items and I exclude that from the Beagle search path via the "Indexing"
tab.  Also in the "Data Sources" I disable the plugins for apps I don't
use.  I don't think this makes a big difference but on my system the
BeagleDaemon runs with a scant ~12MB of writable memory [total is ~50MB,
but more than half of that is shared libraries].
</quote>

> Actually, it may be a GNOME or KDE app, the necessary background
> daemons are running; just no applet, please, as I don't have the
> respective panel to dock them in.


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