zeitgeist-daemon - D-Bus interface providing a log of
activities
zeitgeist-daemon [OPTION]
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.
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.
- -r, --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.
- --log-file=LOG_FILE
- Specifies a file to which log output will be appended.
- -q, --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.
- -h, --help
- Shows a short help message listing all supported options.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
zeitgeist-datahub, gnome-activity-journal
Please report any bugs on
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zeitgeist/zeitgeist/issues.
Please see the AUTHORS file bundled with this application for a
complete list of contributors.
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/>.