How to disable tracker.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Tracker is a KDE app, but GNOME uses it as well, to run Totem, for
example. And Xfce is a fork of GNOME. So Tracker can't be completely
uninstalled. It can however be disabled, by masking systemctl services
for the current user. To do this, the procedure at

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/how-to-completely-disable-tracker.html

worked for me, but read all the cautions first.

HTH.

[Bit Twister]

Post by Doug Laidlaw
Tracker is a KDE app, but GNOME uses it as well, to run Totem, for
example. And Xfce is a fork of GNOME. So Tracker can't be completely
uninstalled. It can however be disabled, by masking systemctl services
for the current user. To do this, the procedure at
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/07/how-to-completely-disable-tracker.html
worked for me, but read all the cautions first.

Sounds like a lot of work to me, and probably will not work on a
xfce install only.

$ systemctl list-units --all | grep tracker
$

No tracker service file found

How about a process:
# ps aux | grep track
root 5039 0.0 0.0 9040 816 pts/11 S+ 22:35 0:00 grep --color --ignore-case track

Nope. My DE

$ echo $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
xfce

How did I disable it, you ask,
xfce4-settings-manager->Session and Startup->Application Autostart->
and disabled all the User folders update and any Tracker entries.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by Bit Twister
How did I disable it, you ask,
xfce4-settings-manager->Session and Startup->Application Autostart->
and disabled all the User folders update and any Tracker entries.

Sounds as though that may be a better method. I used to do it by
editing a config file, but the file is now different.