You may have noticed the tracker-store process running in the background on a Kali system, taking up a large amount of CPU time. This process indexes the contents of files.
Disabling tracker-store is non obvious, but can be done with the following commands:
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echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2 gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false tracker reset --hard |
Once the system is rebooted, it should no longer be running in the background.