----- Original Message ----- > From: Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> > To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:28 AM > Subject: Re: Turning off clippy...er...I mean tracker > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:09 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >> Hello List, >> Ok, I open up the "Search and Index" application and uncheck >> everything under "Semantics". Do I need to do anything else to > get >> those tracker-* services to stop popping up and needlessly burning >> cycles on my cpu? > > (1) you can use the gnome-session-properties application to manage > startup programs
Ah, thanks. I didn't know about this program. > (1.1.) It really should be much easier to find this. Much like the fact > that I have to search for and run "Printing" to set my session's > default > printer. It doesn't look like gnome-session-properties has an icon in the applications listing. > (1.2.) Reading <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747689> > might help you out too. The criticisms there are reasonable. > > (2) your statement is bull, Tracker is not "needlessly burning > cycles". > Tracker is 104% awesome. That must be why it was using 104% cpu when I was on Fedora. :) > Install the extension found at > <https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/284/tracker-search/>. Don't > bother replying if you disagree, I'm not interesting in discussing > this: tracker is awesome, fact. > >> And why isn't there an on/off toggle in that dialog? > > Because being started or not is managed via auto-start. The network manager UI has a prominent on/off switch. > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
