tracker.cfg(5)

NAME
tracker.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 number 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 $prefix/lib/tracker/indexer-modules) Current supported modules: evolution, 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 contents. Defaults to 1048576.

MaxWordsToIndex=VALUE
    Maximum number of unique words to index from a file's text contents. Defaults to 10000.

OptimizationSweepCount=VALUE
    (Deprecated) Specifies the no of entities to index before determining 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 buckets 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 development)

SEE ALSO
tracker(1)