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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