hello.
I’m new to fedora.
i have installed fedora 40 xfce.
I think it’s great.
I notice there are some tracker-miner processes running: tracker-miner-fs-3 and tracker-miner-rss-3
i would like to ask what is the use of those processes in the xfce spin, why are the installed and configured to run on session start up.
I know it is an indexer from the gnome environment and that it is also a dependency to nautilus fm.
But why is It in the xfce edition? Does any application in the xfce spin actually takes advantage of the index?
Can I make any advantage of that index or access it somehow? where is it located?
I have not installed natilus or any other gnome app (yet).
thanks.
Laurencio
running fedora 40 Xfce on a 2009 Toshiba satellite- Pentium T4400 - 2 Gb Ram
Hi - it looks to me like tracker-miners is listed as a dependency of Fedora’s GTK3 package. Since Xfce is based on GTK3, Tracker would presumably get pulled in automatically in that way:
$ dnf repoquery --whatdepends tracker-miners
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:38 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2024 02:24:25 PM EDT.
gnome-photos-0:44.0-4.fc40.x86_64
gtk3-0:3.24.41-1.fc40.i686
gtk3-0:3.24.41-1.fc40.x86_64
gtk3-0:3.24.43-1.fc40.i686
gtk3-0:3.24.43-1.fc40.x86_64
nautilus-0:46.0-1.fc40.i686
nautilus-0:46.0-1.fc40.x86_64
nautilus-0:46.2-1.fc40.i686
nautilus-0:46.2-1.fc40.x86_64
tracker-0:3.7.1-1.fc40.x86_64
tracker-0:3.7.3-1.fc40.x86_64
I’m not aware of non-GNOME software that uses Tracker/TinySPARQL, but I also don’t know if it would be safe to completely disable/remove it from the Xfce spin given the stated dependency from GTK3. Might need folks more knowledgeable on Xfce to help on that one, sorry!
Foliate (eBook reader) has a Setting for it (Use Tracker to track file location), but on FreeBSD tracker wasn’t pulled-in as a dep for it (the setting is enabled by-default and doesn’t seem to throw obvious errors)
Xfce 4.18 with GTK 3.24.43 seems fine to me without tracker and tracker-miners and I’m curious too why it’s used on Fedora Xfce (I find it unnecessary even under GNOME but tolerate it just-existing there)
