disable tracker daemon for redhat, fedora and centos (and presumably rocky and alma linux as well)

kill-tracker.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-extract.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop
echo "Hidden=true" >> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop

dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set \
        org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files crawling-interval -2
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set \
        org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files enable-monitors false
yes | LANG=C tracker reset --hard
sed -i 's/X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=.*/X-Gnome-Autostart-enabled=false/' \
        /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop