And, it didn't work, the fans just continue to spin harder since tracker seems to start indexing from scratch.
I've tried adding
Hidden=true
To
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker*.desktop
Still, tracker continues to index and make my fans run at max speed. This is highly annoying. Please, does anybody know of a way to disable tracker completely? I really do not want to install Windows again just because of some fan problem due to this horrible software
This is from an early article on early edition of Ubuntu, so not sure if it would help or harm:
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How to disable tracker globally :
Disabling tracker for globally (for all users)
Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/trackerd.desktop file with root priviledges (sudo vim, gksudo gedit ...)
Add "Hidden=true" to the end of the file
Do the same for /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-applet.desktop if you want
Disabling tracker for your user only
Enter the directory "~/.config/autostart", create it if it does not exist
Create a file named trackerd.desktop
Paste the following into the file, save and exit
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Tracker
Hidden=true