beagled persistence [was: Do I Really Want Beagle??]

[Sean Carlos]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:27 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 
>> http://nat.org/demos/
>>
>> It's a set of tools that maintain an index of your files' contents for 
>> fast searching.  Properly configured, it can do live searches as data in 
>> your files changes.
> 
> OK, here's my question: How do I make beagled persistent in FC5?
> 
> I went to System / Preferences / Search & Indexing and selected "Start
> search..." but beagled does not start with the next Gnome session.
> 
> I had to add beagled to System / Preferences / More Preferences /
> Sessions / Startup Programs - but somehow I doubt that's the best way to
> achieve persistence.
> 
> Bug? User cluelessness?
> 

There are two things you want to start:

1) the beagle daemon

/usr/bin/beagled

2) the beagle search gui

/usr/bin/beagle-search --icon

(in old documentation, you may see references to best which is the older 
name for beagle-search)

Instructions are here:

http://www.antezeta.com/beagle-fedora.html#startup

Sean Carlos