Doing the deed!

[geoaraujo]

Thats the new full text indexing engine - replaces nepomuk, shouldn't be doing that.

I have been finding it a lot better than the old nepomuk, haven't had any cpu hogging issues at all.

And how can I disable it like the old nepomuk?

[blackpaw]

And how can I disable it like the old nepomuk?

Its config file is ~/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc


I think editing it to:

[Basic Settings]
Enabled=false
Indexing-Enabled=false

will do the trick, but I haven't tested it. You'll probably need to logout or reboot after changing it.

[geoaraujo]

Its config file is ~/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc


I think editing it to:

[Basic Settings]
Enabled=false
Indexing-Enabled=false

will do the trick, but I haven't tested it. You'll probably need to logout or reboot after changing it.

Thanks for the info. I'll try that if it comes a nuisance. I hope the developers make it configurable in system settings, like nepomuk was.

[SteveRiley]

And how can I disable it like the old nepomuk?

Why would you want to do that? Do you not find a system-wide index to be useful?

[blackpaw]

Why would you want to do that? Do you not find a system-wide index to be useful?

When the indexer is crashing constantly and hogging resources

Baloo does seem *much* better than nepomuk in that regard but it is facing very poor user expectations from the nepomuk legacy. The option to turn it off just in case would be useful.

[SteveRiley]

When the indexer is crashing constantly and hogging resources

This is something of a mystery to me. Yes, I've seen a plethora of reports about Nepomuk sucking the life out of machines. But since the arrival of KDE 4.9, I've never experienced these problems. Nepomuk's inconsistency is most certainly causing damage to KDE's reputation. I hope that Baloo can fix this.

[blackpaw]

NB - Important item, my Steam games are working perfectly on Trusty.

[geoaraujo]

Why would you want to do that? Do you not find a system-wide index to be useful?

It's useful indeed, but I prefer to disable it than having it freezing my system and/or producing a lot of heat like nepomuk used to do, and that's why I had it disabled.

Edit: I haven't read the following posts. So, yeah, when it's hogging resources and/or in case of malfunction it would be useful to have the option to disable it, just in case.

[blackpaw]

Regretfully at this transit there is no easy search option.

Search is not working for you?

[whatthefunk]

Search is not working for you?

From dolphin, search is currently broken.

[blackpaw]

There's a command line tool you can use to do searchs

baloosearch  <keywords>

Searches on content and filename. That will let you know if there is a problem with the index itself.

[GreyGeek]

I have occasional crashes of the baloo indexer but It never seems to interfere with anything I'm using and appears to be working inside Dolphin.

[geoaraujo]

I've uninstalled those packages with autoremove. Hope I didn't break anything...

[geoaraujo]

So, sometimes when I turn the computer on, I get the unuseful gui with blackened screen. Rather annoying.

And, today I experienced my first Kernel Panic ever! It was not nice at all! I took a picture of the event, but I don't know if it's useful for telling what's wrong. Oh, and I don't want to hijack the thread, so, if any administrator feels so, please move this post to a new one.

[whatthefunk]

So, sometimes when I turn the computer on, I get the unuseful gui with blackened screen. Rather annoying.

Im getting the same thing. Id love to file a bug report about it, but I dont know which logs to look at to get helpful info.....