Recently I noticed that my CPU was pretty busy with the desktop search indexing,
it brought me to the question:
How can I disable the desktop search service trackerd?
After a brief investigation I found some XDG desktop needed to be edited to
include the key Hidden=true.
This policy disables known trackerd related XDG files when they are found.
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body file control
{
inputs => { "$(sys.libdir)/stdlib.cf" };
}
bundle agent disable_desktop_search
# Disables trackerd used by ubuntu desktop search
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup
# https://gist.github.com/Prezto/75d612cebc9300f83bc74830df3a6410
{
meta:
"tags" slist => { "autorun" };
vars:
"desktop_files"
slist => {
"trackerd.desktop",
"tracker-extract.desktop",
"tracker-miner-apps.desktop",
"tracker-miner-fs.desktop",
"tracker-miner-user-guide.desktop",
"tracker-store.desktop",
};
"conf[Hidden]" string => "true";
files:
# If any known trackerd desktop file exists, make sure that that it
# contains the option to disable the service.
"/etc/xdg/autostart/$(desktop_files)"
if => fileexists( "/etc/xdg/autostart/$(desktop_files)" ),
edit_line => set_line_based( "$(this.bundle).conf",
"=",
"\s*=\s*",
".*",
"\s*#\s*");
}
@if minimum_version(3.12)
# If this policy file is used as the entry, run the policy
bundle agent __main__
{
methods:
"disable_desktop_search";
}
@endif
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How does the policy work?
We include the standard library using body file control. This allows the policy
file to be used directly instead of integrated with a larger policy yet still
leverage bundles and bodies from the standard library (e.g. set_line_based ).
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body file control
{
inputs => { "$(sys.libdir)/stdlib.cf" };
}
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The disable_desktop_search bundle is tagged with autorun so that the policy
can be easily used with the MPF autorun functionality.
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bundle agent disable_desktop_search
# Disables trackerd used by ubuntu desktop search
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup
# https://gist.github.com/Prezto/75d612cebc9300f83bc74830df3a6410
{
meta:
"tags" slist => { "autorun" };
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The list of known trackerd related XDG files is enumerated.
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vars:
"desktop_files"
slist => {
"trackerd.desktop",
"tracker-extract.desktop",
"tracker-miner-apps.desktop",
"tracker-miner-fs.desktop",
"tracker-miner-user-guide.desktop",
"tracker-store.desktop",
};
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The desired configuration is specified in the classic array conf.
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"conf[Hidden]" string => "true";
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Each known trackerd related XDG file is inspected for the proper configuration
line entries and the files are repaired if necessary.
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files:
# If any known trackerd desktop file exists, make sure that that it
# contains the option to disable the service.
"/etc/xdg/autostart/$(desktop_files)"
if => fileexists( "/etc/xdg/autostart/$(desktop_files)" ),
edit_line => set_line_based( "$(this.bundle).conf",
"=",
"\s*=\s*",
".*",
"\s*#\s*");
}
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Finally, if we are running version 3.12.0 or greater we add support for direct
execution of the policy without conflicting bundle names using the new
executable library support from the special bundle __main__.
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@if minimum_version(3.12)
# If this policy file is used as the entry, run the policy
bundle agent __main__
{
methods:
"disable_desktop_search";
}
@endif
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