Tracker - gnome file indexing and search tool for Linux

[Buck Fankers]

I found tracker: "tracker-store: database indexer and query daemon" in my: Session and Startup - Application Autostart (I have Xfce)

"Tracker is a file indexing and search tool for Linux. Gnome makes use of it for some of its functionality, and as a result, Tracker is installed by default on quite a few Linux distributions."

I'm just curious, does it comes standard with MX Xfce or did I get is at some point with some app...
Do I need to keep this, since I'm not using Gnome?
I checked MXPI and I do not have installed any of these three:

- tracker
- tracker-extract
- tracker-miner-fs

Or anything else with the tracker in the name. I don't recall seeing it last time, few months ago, when looking at Session and Startup. I think, bad memory lol

So, does this need to be on Xfce?
Is there an easy way to see which app uses this?

[JayM]

I can answer one of your questions: I don't have this in my system (and I have Xfce plus I installed KDE) so it apparently came with something you installed.

[Buck Fankers]

I can answer one of your questions: I don't have this in my system (and I have Xfce plus I installed KDE) so it apparently came with something you installed.

OK great, thank you! Will start looking into removing this stuff. I saw few guides on the internet somewhere...

p.s.
Hope you pet buddy is doing better!

[JayM]

Check to see what Gnome apps you've installed including Nautilus, plus any file search tools you may have added. Don't just remove packages with gnome in their names willy-nilly though as some of them are needed by MX (due in part to GTK3, I think.) You could also look at /var/log/apt/history.log to see what you've installed vs. what was installed via upgrades, or right-click on the updater icon and click History for an easier-to-read version.

(And thanks. I'll be checking Joshua's status again in a few hours.)

[mvario]

I have the same issue, and tracked it down to Foliate. John Factotum, the author says that Tracker isn't required (https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/361), but the MX package has it as a dependency. I don't really want Tracker running. If I remove Foliate and run the Flatpack version will that run without Tracker?