{"id":62,"date":"2019-01-03T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2019-02-25T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:06:56","slug":"disable-tracker-in-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Disable “tracker” in Fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update- Disabling tracker also disables Samba. This is needed by my Xerox Versalink C405 printer for scanning documents directly from the printer to my Linux machine.<\/p>\n

A note on the Versalink C405. I have owned a number of printers, mostly HP, and this Xerox printer outperforms every other printer that I have ever owned. I would never buy HP again.<\/p>\n

Tracker is a background Linux task that catalogues your disk. It can be a disk hog. To disable it, do the following.<\/p>\n

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  1. Copy the autostart file and override it with a user-specific one: $ cp \/etc\/xdg\/autostart\/tracker-store.desktop ~\/.config\/autostart\/tracker-store.desktop<\/code>
    \nand append to it:
    \nHidden=true<\/code>
    \n(The same step also applies for tracker<\/code>\u2019s friends, such as tracker-miner-fs<\/code>, etc.)<\/li>\n
  2. Mask (which is the strongest yet nondestructive way to \u201cdisable\u201d a static systemd service completely [4]) all tracker<\/code>-related services:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            $ systemctl --user mask tracker-store\r\n\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Thanks to https:\/\/www.soimort.org\/notes\/171103\/ for this information.
    \n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Update- Disabling tracker also disables Samba. This is needed by my Xerox Versalink C405 printer for scanning documents directly from the printer to my Linux machine. A note on the Versalink C405. I have owned a number of printers, mostly HP, and this Xerox printer outperforms every other printer that I have ever owned. I … Continue reading “Disable “tracker” in Fedora”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelectron.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}