03-26-2015, 05:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2015, 12:16 AM by technomancer.)
Info- http://wiki.zeitgeist-project.com/Gettin..._Zeitgeist
If you want to remove it I have using this in a terminal Run sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist
From Ubuntu help pages to disable/enable
There is an easy way described here -- which does not include deleting any package, but simply de-activating the corresponding services. I didn't try it myself, but this way side-effects should be minimal (and probably even wanted, as e.g. no "recent items" being available etc. Moreover, it is easily revertable in case of "unwanted" side effects.
The author of that article explicitly states: Here is a way to disable this logging without breaking Unity or any other part of the system, execute these commands in a terminal:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive
rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
rm -rf ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
Reverting this (if one wants to enable Zeitgeist again) thus should be done like this:
mkdir ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
rmdir ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
# no action for the .xbel file, as it will be re-created automatically
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
which is simply "reversing" the steps of the DE-activation.
Remark: The ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel has nothing to do with Zeitgeist itself, it just falls into the same category somehow. The article mentioned is about "disabling activity logging", and thus included this. If you just want to disable Zeitgeist, you can skip the two middle steps.
I'm not sure if it was installed by myself as a dependency or what.
It's gone now........... I hope that helps somebody.
"Privacy is essential and integral to Linux"
Incorrect-So i have somewhat looked into this issue and found this on os builder forum
"Don’t be fooled, Canonical The company behind Ubuntu, this includes Mint etc. as they are now in cohoots with Ubuntu as well uses the data it collects on users, I’m sure in various forms. One such tragedy is to send you relevant ads and direct you to amazon etc. based on the data collected. I understand they want to make money, spying on their users is not the way to go about it."
If you want to remove it I have using this in a terminal Run sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist
From Ubuntu help pages to disable/enable
There is an easy way described here -- which does not include deleting any package, but simply de-activating the corresponding services. I didn't try it myself, but this way side-effects should be minimal (and probably even wanted, as e.g. no "recent items" being available etc. Moreover, it is easily revertable in case of "unwanted" side effects.
The author of that article explicitly states: Here is a way to disable this logging without breaking Unity or any other part of the system, execute these commands in a terminal:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive
rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
rm -rf ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
Reverting this (if one wants to enable Zeitgeist again) thus should be done like this:
mkdir ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
rmdir ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
# no action for the .xbel file, as it will be re-created automatically
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
which is simply "reversing" the steps of the DE-activation.
Remark: The ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel has nothing to do with Zeitgeist itself, it just falls into the same category somehow. The article mentioned is about "disabling activity logging", and thus included this. If you just want to disable Zeitgeist, you can skip the two middle steps.
I'm not sure if it was installed by myself as a dependency or what.
It's gone now........... I hope that helps somebody.
"Privacy is essential and integral to Linux"
Incorrect-So i have somewhat looked into this issue and found this on os builder forum
"Don’t be fooled, Canonical The company behind Ubuntu, this includes Mint etc. as they are now in cohoots with Ubuntu as well uses the data it collects on users, I’m sure in various forms. One such tragedy is to send you relevant ads and direct you to amazon etc. based on the data collected. I understand they want to make money, spying on their users is not the way to go about it."
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*Hardware hacks are my speciality.
"forum posts should be like a skirt- long enough to cover the subject material, but short enough to keep things interesting"
--I am using/Running Linuxlite 2.8, Debian8 server, Ubuntu 14, Win7,Win10, MX15, LinuxMint kde.
--Xerox field service engineer, printer repairs,network analyst.