On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:06 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: > I also discovered that three different tracker processes were running > in my xfce desktop! However since I don't see a need for them for me, > nor do I want them, it was relatively easy to prevent them from > executing on desktop startup by going to The Applications menu, then > Settings->"Session and Startup" and under the "Application Autostart" > tab then switch off "Tracker File System Miner", "Tracker Store" and > "Tracker Miner for Flickr" as three separate switches - after that > there are no tracker processes running after the next login..... and > if necessary the cache files can be removed as well. > > I guess there are analogous switches in KDE too that might help make > KDE actually work as a much snappier desktop? In fact I abandonned KDE > for xfce because it was simply too slow logging in for my liking. All > this in f16 but others may have a different experience of course? > > If this makes KDE a usable desktop again I might even try it when I > have a bit of spare time! I don't think tracker is present in a stock KDE install. KDE has its own desktop search thingy (though they call it the 'semantic desktop'), Nepomuk. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
