Questions tagged [zeitgeist]
Zeitgeist is an event logger which keeps a track of your activities while you are using your computer (any supported computing device). This information can then be used for various of useful cases like logs, statistics etc
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How to display files and applications activity?
I would like to display the activity recorded by Zeitgeist on my Ubuntu system.
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How can I make a KDE app (Okular) register its actions with Zeitgeist?
I don't really enjoy Evince, and I use Okular for my pdf needs.
Okular is nice, but when I open a document with it, it's not added to my recent documents, nor appear in the fast dash file search (it ...
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after remove zeitgeist, there is no unity in Ubuntu
Because zeitgeist continuously access the hard disk, I removed zeitgeist package completely. After that, when trying to log into Ubuntu, there is no more unity option, only Genome, Genome (no effects),...
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zeitgeist-daemon excessive RAM usage
I have installed last week Ubuntu 11.04 64 on a new machine. I am running the GUI using Unity. However I have noticed that after 1-2 hours the process zeitgeist-daemon starts using excessively the ...
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Unity Dash "Most Frequently Used" Application Disappeared, How to Reinstall Unity & Zeitgeist Completely?
My "Most Frequently Used" Applications in Unity Dash disappeared.
I tried to:
reset unity with unity --reset,
removing Zeitgeist history with rm ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite, and even
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Why does Zeitgeist use ~/.local/share/ instead of ~/.cache?
I have noticed that many applications like Chromium, MC, and Ubuntu One use one common ~/.cache directory, so why doesn't Zeitgeist?
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Does the new "privacy" button have a log?
I was just wondering if there was a log that shows exactly what the various applications are taking a history of?
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Activity log manager is not preventing Zeitgeist from logging files
I am running Gnome Shell and I do not like Zeitgeist indexing all my files. This makes the overview search in gnome-shell very slow. I do not want the overview to search recent files, so I installed ...
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Is there a desktop-wide privacy mode?
With Zeitgeist now tracking everything I really think we need a privacy mode like the one Firefox offers. There is a ridiculous amount of history and caches being stored in Ubuntu from thumbnails to ...
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A weird 16TB file in my SSD
Somehow, a file has appeared on my SSD which is larger than the SSD itself.
The file is 16 TB in size and is located on my /home partition which is only 220 GB. The path is (if that's relevant)
~/....
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How to populate zeitgeist with firefox favorites and visited pages
Pretty straightforward question here. How to populate zeitgeist with the pages visited & favs from Firefox?
I remember that there was a package/extension that provided that in the past, but I ...
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How to make zeitgeist just log my application not my files
I'm using ubuntu 12.04 with unity. I want to config the zeitgeist to just track my application but ignore the usage of files.
I tried to add "/" to the blacklist, but it didn't work. The recent files ...
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Prevent Unity Dash from searching specific hard drive [closed]
I have a hard drive that is exclusively used for storage of music, pictures, movies and that sort of thing. It contains no system files.
To conserve power and reduce noise, I have set it to spin down ...
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Trouble installing gnome-activity-journal
The following happens after attempting to run gnome-activity-journal (from a purge then reinstall)
$ gnome-activity-journal &
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$ /usr/share/themes/Orta/gtk-2.0/Styles/Panel/panel-...
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Why doesn't removing "recently-used.xbel" clear my "Recent" folder?
I have searched on Google, and I have completed the following steps:
Delete "all" activity history from the "Privacy" application.
Remove the file "recently-used.xbel" from ~/.local/share
$ nautilus -...
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Wine entries persist after uninstall wine
I updated to 12.04 from 11.10 recently and I had a few problems I solved without much effort.
But one thing is still bothering me. I uninstalled Wine (and removed the .wine directory) but the entries ...
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What are the places where does Ubunty saves recent user activity and tools to clean them?
I'd like to clear (and disable tracking if possible) all the recent user activity tracking (like most recently accessed files (MRU) and applications, thumbnail caching etc.). The only thing I do NOT ...
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Will I be able to remove Unity and Zeitgeist completely?
If I will ever use Ubuntu 11.04, it will be essential for me to remove both Unity and Zeitgeist completely from it. Can I remove both completely without running into problems with the rest of the OS? ...
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I deactivated zeitgeist and need help reactivating it
All I have been able to do is to activate it in the startup programs, but not in the privacy settings, it looks different now.
I also run from a terminal:
sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon
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Recent Items missing Zeitgeist
I want to delete history and disable recent items recording. So i went to Zeitgeist options, but there is no Recent Items or Files tab only 'Security', 'Search' and 'Diagnostics' tab. But in my guest ...
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Recent Documents Click Launches Nautilus Rather Than File
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed, and recently, I've noticed that whenever I click on a 'recent document' from either the "Recent Documents" list in my Cairo Dock or from my journalling extension in ...
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How can I get local files to appear in unity lenses?
Perhaps I've mis-understood how the lenses are meant to work, but I find that local files or folders never show up in any of the lenses unless I've previously opened them. This is true for the file ...
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Tagging gone from Nautilus, GAJ, tracker
I had installed Gnome Activity Journal, Zeitgeist and Tracker but borked the install by mixing the PPAs with the universe repos. I removed all the packages, did apt-get remove --purge, then did a ...
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How to track time using zeitgeist in Ubuntu 20.04
I have no clue how to use zeitgeist after installing it with apt. It seems to be a tracker that dumps the data somewhere but there is no viewer!! The so called “GNOME Activity Journal” and zeitgeist-...
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Recent Used or Launched GUI Application (Similar to bash_history)
Is there something in Gnome or Ubuntu 18.04 that will show the recent used GUI applications. For the command line commands there is the Bash History log which I use all the time.
If I can see a list,...
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PCManFM actions not tracked in zeitgeist
zeitgeist and gnome-activity-journal seem like a good answer to many of my family-tech-support issues. (I can't find the document I just edited!) Installed them on family Lubuntu machines and, in the ...
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how to use Zeitgeist activity logger
My daughter uses Ubuntu and I want to WATCH her activity not lock it down. I'd rather give her the freedom to make choices over filtering her content.
Google search has turned up Zeitgeist as a ...
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What can I safely remove from Ubuntu and still have a decent graphic interface?
I have come to like Linux, Unix, and the GUI's but sometimes I remove too many things and lose the ability to boot back into the same interface I was using before I rebooted. most of the time I have ...
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How do I prevent totem and other programs from logging all recently played files?
This is a frustrating problem, is there any way to prevent totem from logging all of the files I watch? The same goes with picture viewer.
Under Dash -> Privacy, I've turned off logging and disabled ...
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What information does Zeitgeist collect?
Richard Matthew Stallman has called Ubuntu "Spyware".
Does the program called Zeitgeist spy? How can I disable it? What type of data does Zeitgeist send out?
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How do I inspect Zeitgeist
On Ubuntu 13.04, is there a tool that allows me to inspect the contents of the Zeitgeist logs?
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Strange atime changes in home-folder
I recently recognized some strange behavior of my system and my atime-records of my /home files.
I tried to code a simple script to check whether some files in the /Downloads folder are untouched for ...
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Problems with 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS upgrade
I decided to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS. I used do-release-upgrade. Everything worked.
When I run lsb_release -a I get :
Description : Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release : 14.04
Codename : ...
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terminal that logs to dbus
do you know of a terminal that logs file accesses and such to dbus?
I am asking because I have been using the xterm more than any file explorers but xterm does not send anything to dbus. This has ...
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Alternatives for Monitoring and logging changes anywhere in file system [Ubuntu 14.04] [duplicate]
I would like to monitor and log following changes in file system:
Opening and closing of any file by any user.
Creation/deletion of file by any user.
Files downloaded by any user.
After some ...
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Unable to replicate xsessions/ubuntu.desktop in Ubuntu desktop 14.04 (with xsession-errors)
I have been loosing quite a lot of hair over this one.
I am trying to get a second x-session behaving exactly as the default one provided by ubuntu.desktop. So here is what I did:
copied ubuntu....
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firefox lost connection after shooting down zeitgeist
What was happening in the following situation?
Firefox couldn't connect to the internet, but sudo firefox could. I had 13.10 32b on Lenovo with amd64.
The not so relevant story goes as follows:
I ...
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Why does my Firefox profile folder keep showing up in Recently Used (files/folders)?
In "Privacy and Activity Mgr", (I would think) the following are my relevant settings:
yet in Nautilus, my Firefox profile folder shows up (usually as the first entry) in the Recently Used (file/...
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Restrict file search to ONE folder and it's subs
When I go to Settings > Privacy > Files (tab)
It provides me with the option to provide a list of folders:
"Don't record activity in the following folders"
However, I'd like to be able to do the ...
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How to disable the activity log for the application lens? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop Unity from remembering search history?
How to clear search history of application search? Every time when I select application lens or press Super+A it shows up ...
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Totem fails at start (totem:3808), after activating dbus plugin
I am using Ubuntu 11.10; Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic with Gnome 3.2.1
Yesterday I was browsing through the totem plugins and accidentally hit activate on the dbus plugin.
When I started Totem ...
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Indexers - Which are in use by which projects? Nepomuk, Zeitgeist, Tracker? [closed]
I am trying to get an idea if indexers like Zeitgist or Nepomuk are in active use by the various desktops or are they being phased out and replaced?
Most of the documentation online for these seem to ...
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Removing Ubuntu's Privacy Breaching Features [closed]
I want to remove all tracking features from Ubuntu in a single line (or a few) lines of Bash script. Is this enough or am I missing something:
$ sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-...
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How I can run Zeitgeist with KDE
I can't integrate Zeitgeist with KDE, when I use GNOME, Zeitgeist works correct and logs everything what I'm doing.
Is it a problem that I'm using both graphical environments ?
(I'm going to remove ...
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Why `systemctl` doesn't list/manage `zeitgeist-daemon`, and what/who actually does?
Previous subject: "zeitgeist-daemon: what keeps restarting it and how to make it stop?"
Updated subject (can revert if I am wrong): May be, this question should actually be "Why systemctl doesnt list/...
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The System monitor says that a process named zeitgeist takes up about 450 MB of memory
Is that normal? What happens if I uninstall it?
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How to enable zeitgeist logging for emacs on ubuntu 12.04
I would like the files I open in emacs to show up in the dash under the files lens.
As far as I understand zeitgeist is doing the work, but I can't seem to find the emacs zeitgeist data provider that ...
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Does Zeitgeist slow performance considerably
This was talked to me today and I actually did not have a proper answer, so I was wondering if Zeitgeist had any impact in performance. For example if comparing Ubuntu with and without Zeitgeist in ...
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How can I prevent Zeitgeist from reading clipboard?
When I copy ID/password to clipboard, only password is copied, because Zeitgeist catches ID from gpass as if I were pressing Ctrl V. Is it possible to avoid? Activity Log Manager seems to not help in ...
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Unity-dash - disable Zeitgeist as search engine permanelty
Following up this question, I've managed to locate any file on my computer (and not only those which had been recently opened) by inputting the following command on the terminal
sudo updatedb -U $...
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