The Zeitgeist event logger is the tool used to remember virtually everything you do when using the Unity desktop shell. Zeitgeist will most importantly remember all of the files, directories, and applications that you use most frequently.
Using Zeitgeist
You don’t have to use it, the event logger will do all of the work in the background for you. This means the most important data will always be displayed by the Unity desktop dash.
Event Logging
Users can also toggle which data is monitored and displayed by Zeitgeist, this means that private folders and their contents will not be displayed in the dash.
You can install this convenient tool on any Ubuntu based system without much trouble. But this event logger will also work on many other Linux distributions as well.
Zeitgeist PPA
To install this tool on Ubuntu systems that are not already using it you will first need to add the PPA to your sources.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeitgeist/ppa
Update Sources
Next you should update your sources so the installed can find your new packages.
$ sudo apt-get update
Install Zeitgeist
Now you can begin installing this excellent even logging tool with the commands seen below.
$ sudo apt-get install zeitgeist
We should first take a look at exactly how this event logger functions. I will cover this more thoroughly as documentation becomes available.
Zeitgeist Daemon
The Zeitgeist daemon uses DBus API, GLib, and SQLite to monitor and and log system events. Support for Zeitgeist can be added to many programs using the following programming languages, Python, C, Javascript, and Qt.
Here are a few useful commands that will help users interact with the Zeitgeist daemon from the Linux command line.
Start Zeitgeist
The command below will start the Zeitgeist daemon.
$ zeitgeist-daemon
Quit Zeitgeist
Use the next commands to quit Zeitgeist.
$ zeitgeist-daemon --quit
Restart Zeitgeist
You can also restart the event logger with this.
$ zeitgeist-daemon --restart
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