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FIGURE 18.13 Configuring Beagle indexing and search behavior.
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FIGURE 18.14 Configuring content to be indexed.
Under this tab, you can configure specific directories that should be indexed and other
directories that should not be indexed. By default, all subdirectories of the directories
specified are included. As the daemon is running, you can see the content it has indexed
by entering beagle-index-info at the shell prompt.
Beagle will conduct its searching and indexing operations in the background and run
with a low priority so that it doesn??™t take up excessive amounts of CPU time or hard disk
bandwidth. In this mode, the indexing operation could take many hours to complete.
However, you can force beagled to run at a higher priority and complete the index
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process much faster. This is done by stopping the daemon, entering export
BEAGLE__EXERCISE_THE_DOG=1 at the shell prompt, and then restarting the daemon.
Searching with Beagle
Using Beagle to search for desktop information is simplified quite a bit by the GUI tools
supplied by each desktop environment.
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