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"Session and Startup" does not disable tracker*

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open "Session and Startup" (xfce4-session-settings)
  2. Disable...
    • "Tracker File System Miner ..."
    • "Tracker metadata Extractor ..."
    • "Tracker Store (....)"
  3. Enable a way to figure out if they are run
    • I used: renaming executables usr/libexec/tracker*
  4. Reboot system
  5. Check /var/log/syslog: System tries to start the services ( if the executables are renamed, an error file not found will be shown)

Apparent problem

There are two entries for tracker*:

Session and Startup does not alter the files in /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker*.service, but only in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart.

Workaround

Manually rename /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker*.service to /usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker*.service.disabled

Edited by DarkTrick