1tracker.cfg(5) Configuration Files tracker.cfg(5)
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6 tracker.cfg - configuration file for the trackerd search daemon
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10 The tracker.cfg file resides in the $HOME/.config/tracker directory.
11 The file is organized in sections, each section having a number of
13 related options.
14 Comments
16 Empty lines and those starting with ; or # are ignored.
17 Value Types
19 VALUE Denotes a positive integer.
20 BOOLEAN
22 Denotes either true or false.
23 Any other value
25 Any special keyword is to be replaced by one of the documented
26 valid values, e.g. pathnames or language codes.
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30 [General]
31 Verbosity=0
33 InitialSleep=50
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38 General
39 This section may contain general settings for trackerd.
40 Verbosity=VALUE
42 Specifies how verbose trackerd should be logging. VALUE can be
43 one of 0 through 3.
44 0 Show no but error and critical output, this is the
46 default behavior.
47 1 Show minimal output, i.e. not just errors.
49 2 Show verbose output.
51 3 Show debugging output, enable this only if you know what
53 you are doing.
54 LowMemoryMode=BOOLEAN
56 Enables low memory mode. Tracker may be slightly less fast at
57 indexing/search but also needs less system memory.
58 InitialSleep=VALUE
60 Sets the initial sleep time for trackerd. This is a number of
61 seconds that trackerd wait before indexing.
62 Watches
65 WatchDirectoryRoots=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
66 Sets the directories trackerd should watch and index. Defaults
67 to the users home directory.
68 NoWatchDirectory=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
70 Sets directories trackerd should ignore, i.e. not index or
71 watch.
72 CrawlDirectory=DIRECTORY[;MORE;DIRECTORIES]
74 Sets directories trackerd should index once but not watch for
75 changes.
76 EnableWatching=BOOLEAN
78 Enables or disables watching of directories, i.e. re-index files
79 when they change.
80 Indexing
83 This section may contain indexing related options.
84 Throttle=VALUE
86 Sets the throttling value for the Indexer. VALUE can be any num‐
87 ber from 0 to 20 whereas higher values decrease indexing speed.
88 EnableIndexing=BOOLEAN
90 Enable or disable the indexer.
91 EnableFileContentIndexing=BOOLEAN
93 Enable or disable indexing of files text contents.
94 EnableThumbnails=BOOLEAN
96 Enable or disable the generation of thumbnails.
97 NoIndexFileTypes=FILEGLOB[;MORE;FILEGLOBS...]
99 List of partial file patterns (glob) separated by semicolons
100 that specify files not to index. Only basic metadata (i.e.
101 information retrieved by stat(2)) is indexed.
102 MinWordLength=VALUE
104 Sets the minimum word length to index. Words having less then
105 VALUE characters will not be indexed.
106 MaxWordLength=VALUE
108 Sets the maximum word length to index. Words having more then
109 VALUE characters will not be indexed.
110 Language=LANGCODE
112 Sets the language specific stemmer and stopword list to use.
113 Valid values are:
114 en English
116 da Danish
118 nl dutch
120 fi Finnish
122 fr French
124 de German
126 it Italian
128 nb Norwegian
130 pt Portuguese
132 ru Russian
134 es Spanish
136 sv Swedish
138 EnableStemmer=BOOLEAN
140 Enable or disable the stemmer.
141 BatteryIndex=BOOLEAN
143 Enable or disable indexing when on battery power.
144 BatteryIndexInitial=BOOLEAN
146 Enable or disable initial index sweep (i.e. the very first
147 indexing) when on battery power.
148 Emails
151 This section may contain Email specific options.
152 IndexEvolutionEmails=BOOLEAN
154 Enable or disable indexing for Evolution emails.
155 IndexThunderbirdEmails=BOOLEAN
157 Enable or disable indexing for Thunderbird emails.
158 Performance
161 Trackerd performance related options.
162 MaxTextToIndex=VALUE
164 Maximum size of text in bytes to index from a file's text con‐
165 tents. Defaults to 1048576.
166 MaxWordsToIndex=VALUE
168 Maximum number of unique words to index from a file's text con‐
169 tents. Defaults to 10000.
170 OptimizationSweepCount=VALUE
172 Specifies the no of entities to index before determining whether
173 to perform index optimization. Default to 10000.
174 MaxBucketCount=VALUE
176 Sets the maximum bucket count for the indexer. Defaults to
177 524288.
178 MinBucketCount=VALUE
180 Sets the minimum bucket count. Defaults to 65536
181 Divisions=VALUE
183 Sets no. of divisions of the index file. Default to 4.
184 BucketRatio=VALUE
186 Selects the desired ratio of used records to buckets to be used
187 when optimizing index (should be a value between 0 and 4).
188 Defaults to 1.
189 Padding=VALUE
191 Alters how much padding is used to prevent index relocations.
192 Higher values improve indexing speed but waste more disk space.
193 Value should be in range (1..8). Defaults to 2.
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197 tracker(1)
198GNU July 2007 tracker.cfg(5)