tracker.cfg(5) Configuration Files tracker.cfg(5)NAMEtracker.cfg - configuration file for the trackerd search daemon
DESCRIPTION
The tracker.cfg file resides in the $HOME/.config/tracker directory.
The file is organized in sections, each section having a number of
related options.
Comments
Empty lines and those starting with ; or # are ignored.
Value Types
VALUE Denotes a positive integer.
BOOLEAN
Denotes either true or false.
Any other value
Any special keyword is to be replaced by one of the documented
valid values, e.g. pathnames or language codes.
EXAMPLE
[General]
Verbosity=0
LowMemoryMode=false
Sections
General
This section may contain general settings for trackerd.
Verbosity=VALUE
Specifies how verbose trackerd should be logging. VALUE can be
one of 0 through 3.
0 Show no but error and critical output, this is the
default behavior.
1 Show minimal output, i.e. not just errors.
2 Show verbose output.
3 Show debugging output, enable this only if you know what
you are doing.
LowMemoryMode=BOOLEAN
Enables low memory mode. Tracker may be slightly less fast at
indexing/search but also needs less system memory.
InitialSleep=VALUE
Sets the initial sleep time for trackerd. This is a number of
seconds that trackerd wait before indexing.
NFSLocking=BOOLEAN
Set to TRUE when the home directory is in a NFS filesystem.
Watches
WatchDirectoryRoots=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
Sets the directories trackerd should watch and index. Defaults
to the users home directory.
NoWatchDirectory=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
Sets directories trackerd should ignore, i.e. not index or
watch.
CrawlDirectory=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
Sets directories trackerd should index once but not watch for
changes.
EnableWatching=BOOLEAN
Enables or disables watching of directories, i.e. re-index files
when they change.
Indexing
This section may contain indexing related options.
Throttle=VALUE
Sets the throttling value for the Indexer. VALUE can be any num‐
ber from 0 to 20 whereas higher values decrease indexing speed.
EnableIndexing=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable the indexer.
EnableFileContentIndexing=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable indexing of files text contents.
EnableThumbnails=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable the generation of thumbnails.
DisabledModules=MODULENAME[;MORE;MODULENAMES]
List of disable modules (The modules are kept in $pre‐
fix/lib/tracker/indexer-modules) Current supported modules: evo‐
lution, applications, files, gaim-conversations
FastMerges=BOOLEAN
(Deprecated)
NoIndexFileTypes=FILEGLOB[;MORE;FILEGLOBS...]
List of partial file patterns (glob) separated by semicolons
that specify files not to index. Only basic metadata (i.e.
information retrieved by stat(2)) is indexed.
MinWordLength=VALUE
Sets the minimum word length to index. Words having less then
VALUE characters will not be indexed.
MaxWordLength=VALUE
Sets the maximum word length to index. Words having more then
VALUE characters will not be indexed.
Language=LANGCODE
Sets the language specific stemmer and stopword list to use.
Valid values are:
en English
da Danish
nl dutch
fi Finnish
fr French
de German
it Italian
nb Norwegian
pt Portuguese
ru Russian
es Spanish
sv Swedish
EnableStemmer=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable the stemmer.
BatteryIndex=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable indexing when on battery power.
BatteryIndexInitial=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable initial index sweep (i.e. the very first
indexing) when on battery power.
IndexMountedDirectories=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable traversing mounted directories on other file
systems (this excludes removable devices)
IndexRemovableMedia=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable traversing mounted directories for removable
devices
Emails
(Deprecated) This section may contain Email specific options.
IndexEvolutionEmails=BOOLEAN
(Deprecated) Enable or disable indexing for Evolution emails.
Use DisableModules instead.
IndexModestEmails=BOOLEAN
(Deprecated) Enable or disable indexing for Modest emails. Use
DisableModules instead.
IndexThunderbirdEmails=BOOLEAN
(Deprecated) Enable or disable indexing for Thunderbird emails.
Use DisableModules instead.
Performance
Trackerd performance related options.
MaxTextToIndex=VALUE
Maximum size of text in bytes to index from a file's text con‐
tents. Defaults to 1048576.
MaxWordsToIndex=VALUE
Maximum number of unique words to index from a file's text con‐
tents. Defaults to 10000.
OptimizationSweepCount=VALUE
(Deprecated) Specifies the no of entities to index before deter‐
mining whether to perform index optimization. Default to 10000.
MaxBucketCount=VALUE
Sets the maximum bucket count for the indexer. Defaults to
524288.
MinBucketCount=VALUE
Sets the minimum bucket count. Defaults to 65536
Divisions=VALUE
(Deprecated) Sets no. of divisions of the index file. Default to
4.
BucketRatio=VALUE
(Deprecated) Selects the desired ratio of used records to buck‐
ets to be used when optimizing index (should be a value between
0 and 4). Defaults to 1.
Padding=VALUE
(Deprecated) Alters how much padding is used to prevent index
relocations. Higher values improve indexing speed but waste more
disk space. Value should be in range (1..8). Defaults to 2.
Services
Extra services supported in tracker
EnableXesam=BOOLEAN
Enable or disable XESAM support in tracker (still under develop‐
ment)
SEE ALSOtracker(1)ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE^ATTRIBUTE VALUE │ │
├────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability^SUNWdesktop-search │ │
├────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability^Volatile │ │
│ │ │
└────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
GNU July 2007 tracker.cfg(5)
