09-25-2020, 08:32 AM
I thought I would make another post here since now there is the new Weather app that also uses location services taken from geoclue, perhaps via gnome-shell. I am not fully aware of exactly how the communication between these apps take place, anyways:
Changing the geoclue.conf file in /etc/geoclue/ to the following disables the location "tracking" while connected to WLAN.
This also works to disable location pin pointing in the Maps app and I assume all other apps aswell that use geoclue for one reason or another.
It would be nice to have some better overview of apps that work together with the information that geoclue provides. Maps and Weather are two obvious one but how to know if Geary or the new Camera app makes use of geoclue as well? I might be breaking some other features as well by disabling NMEA sources but to my knowledge there is no other way since there is no individual app location settings control in the current mobian release. Please correct me if im wrong Im happy to be enligthened.
Changing the geoclue.conf file in /etc/geoclue/ to the following disables the location "tracking" while connected to WLAN.
Code:
# Fetch location from NMEA sources on local network?
enable=false
Code:
# Enable WiFi source
enable=false
This also works to disable location pin pointing in the Maps app and I assume all other apps aswell that use geoclue for one reason or another.
It would be nice to have some better overview of apps that work together with the information that geoclue provides. Maps and Weather are two obvious one but how to know if Geary or the new Camera app makes use of geoclue as well? I might be breaking some other features as well by disabling NMEA sources but to my knowledge there is no other way since there is no individual app location settings control in the current mobian release. Please correct me if im wrong Im happy to be enligthened.