[opensuse] where do I turn tracker off at?

28 May 2010

      First, Beagle came along and made a hog of itself. Then Nepomuk came
along and just kept everything to itself, letting me have a
microscopic scrap of resources every once in a great while. Now,
tracker shows up and hijacks my system when I'm working.

The tracker gang, led by tracker-miner-fs, turns up after login and
takes over my system as they search and index files like Beagle and
Nepomuk. And as with those other two, the tracker gang does it's thing
while I am busy and slows my work to a crawl or stalls it completely.

The man pages say tracker is started by the .desktop config file.
There is no .desktop config file. I've looked in every config file I
can think of and none start tracker.

THe worst thing about tracker, as is the worst thing with beagle and
nepomuk, and cron jobs like suse.de-updatedb, etc., is that they
always, without fail, choose to do their more important work while I'm
working and never at idle times, like late at night.

I want tracker to stop. I don't need it. It is severely interfering
with work.

So, Does Anyone Know Where, in which file, is the tracker gang started
up? And if I delete it, will it go kamikaze and break the system or
other apps, like so (too!) many other rpm-installed apps do?

And BTW, why is it that beagle, nepomuk, tracker, et cetera are always
installed and set to run at the most inopportune times by default?
There's a trend here that suggests that someone's been reading way too
much BOFH and that there will be many more of those  hijacking
searcher/indexers to come.

==
jd
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you
choose your own form of misery.

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