NAME¶
zeitgeist-daemon - D-Bus interface providing a log of activities
SYNOPSIS¶
zeitgeist-daemon [OPTION]
DESCRIPTION¶
zeitgeist-daemon is daemon providing an activity log. That is, it
consists of a central database for events such as file usage, browser history,
calendar entries, etc.
All this information is made available to external applications which
communicate with
zeitgeist-daemon over D-Bus. Interested applications
can request information, insert new events or delete existing events.
Zeitgeist is also capable of establishing relationships between activities. Its
purpose is enabling an activity-aware desktop with adaptive user interfaces.
By default,
zeitgeist-daemon will also start the bundled logging
application
zeitgeist-datahub.
OPTIONS¶
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with options starting
with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options is included below.
- --no-datahub
- Do not start zeitgeist-datahub together with this
daemon.
- --replace
- Replace any existing Zeitgeist instance if there is one
already running. If this option isn't used, zeitgeist-daemon will
refuse to start if another running instance is found.
- --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
- Specifies how much information should be printed to the
standard output. Possible values are: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR,
CRITICAL.
- --quit
- Stop a currently running Zeitgeist instance and exit. This
lets Zeitgeist finish any operation it may currently be doing.
- -v, --version
- Shows which version of Zeitgeist is being executed.
- --help
- Shows a short help message listing all supported options.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
- ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH
- Overrides the directory where user data files are placed.
The default value is that of XDG's data dir (usually
~/.local/share/zeitgeist).
- ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH
- This variable lets you specify an override for the filename
of the main database. The default value is
$ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH/activity.sqlite.
- ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_BACKUP_PATH
- This variable lets you specify an override for the filename
of a possible database backup. The default value is
$ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH/activity.sqlite.bck.
- ZEITGEIST_DISABLED_EXTENSIONS
- This variable lets you specify comma separated list of
extension names which shouldn't be loaded. The names are extracted from
type names of the extensions, so to disable extension with type name
ZeitgeistDataSourceRegistry, value of the variable should be
DataSourceRegistry.
SIGNALS¶
SIGHUP: zeitgeist-daemon will shut itself down in a clean way.
It is recommended that system updates of
Zeitgeist send this signal to all running instances of zeitgeist-daemon. DBus
activation will make sure the updated software is automatically restarted when
needed.
EXIT CODES¶
- 0
- Zeitgeist terminated normally.
- 1
- An unspecified error occurred.
- 10
- There is already a running Zeitgeist instance.
- 21
- Could not access the database file.
- 22
- The database file is locked.
SEE ALSO¶
zeitgeist-datahub,
gnome-activity-journal
BUGS¶
Please report any bugs on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zeitgeist.
AUTHORS¶
Please see the AUTHORS file bundled with this application for a complete list of
contributors.
LICENSE¶
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
with this program. If not, see <
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
