Re: [Tracker] pausing/throttling/etc trackerd from command line?

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

wayne wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 09:04 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > wayne wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:46 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > >> Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > >> > We're making it possible to pause the indexer using DBus, so using
> > >> > dbus-send it'll be possible to do this (for example).
> > >> > 
> > >> > Martyn is (or has) implementing this. Added Martyn in CC.
> > >> > 
> > >>
> > >> Philip is right, you can use DBus (or d-feet the application to use the 
> > >> interfaces we expose). We also watch for changes to tracker.cfg so if 
> > >> you change the throttle there, it should be picked up and changed in 
> > >> real time without any restarts needed.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > thanks for the info.  is there a place one can find the "spec" for the 
> > > messages the Tracker listens for.  at least besides the source code?  
> > > thanks for a very useful piece of software.
> >
> > The DBus interfaces are the best place to start for this I would say. If 
> > you use d-feet:
> >
> >    https://fedorahosted.org/d-feet/
> >
> > You can see all the interfaces Tracker makes public and use the API that 
> > way. In particular you are probably interested in the service:
> >
> >    org.freedesktop.Tracker
> >
> > and the interface:
> >
> >    /org/freedesktop/Tracker/
> >
> > using the method:
> >
> >    SetBoolOption
> >
> > If you use the string:
> >
> >    Pause
> >
> > You can control if the whole stack is paused or not.
> > The tracker-applet also does this using the context menu in the 
> > notification area.
> thanks again.  i have installed d-feet.  unfortunately, the "Object 
> Paths" for org.freedesktop.Tracker are empty.  other interfaces in 
> d-feet have Object Paths (e.g. Gnome Do, HAL), though some like Tracker 
> are empty.  i do not know enough about DBus to know why :)  thanks.

My guess you have a version < 0.6.90 which doesn't support introspection 
and is no longer supported. If you can upgrade, you will see a huge 
difference :)

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Regards,
Martyn