Linux: Disable Ubuntu Unity zeitgeist-datahub

Xah Lee, 2012-09-28, 2012-11-13

In Ubuntu, there's this program named “zeitgeist” mucking around in the background as a demon. Do: ps -ef | grep zeit to see. It logs your activity. It seems to be used by Ubuntu's default user interface the “Unity” and also Gnome 3, for things like listing frequently used apps, files.

If you are not mom ＆ pop, unistall the f�ck of it. sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist*

Reference:

• Disabling Zeitgeist @ http://askubuntu.com/questions/45548/disabling-zeitgeist
• Zeitgeist Datahub Purpose in Ubuntu @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10892713

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