On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:27:54 +0200
"Carlos E. R."
Leap 15.0, XFCE.
I don't know what "program" does it, the title of the box says "search for files". There is no "about" box. But in the "ps afxu" list I see that "gnome-search-tool" is running.
I select to search:
Name contains: *odt Look in folder: cer (that's my home) Select more options contains the text: cucaracha
Finds nothing.
Which is absurd, I have that LO doc opened, the file does exist.
If I try search without a content, also finds nothing. Again absurd, I have many *odt files on my home.
I can not see in the entire application menu what to use to configure the search, but I have used it in the past, so it must exist.
Anyway, this tool says it uses "find(1), locate(1), grep(1)". Grep? Wasn't there a tool in gnome or xfce that created an index of contents that took a lot of resources, similar to baloo in KDE? What's it name? Ah, tracker.
If I run "tracker" nothing happens. It seems to be a CLI program.
cer@Telcontar:~> tracker status Currently indexed: 107064 files, 5715 folders Remaining space on database partition: 59,0 GB (56,13%) All data miners are idle, indexing complete
cer@Telcontar:~>
The rpm description says:
tracker - Object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer
Tracker is a desktop-neutral object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer.
There must be a GUI to it!
The wikipedia says "Tracker has been adopted by the GNOME desktop environment and is heavily integrated into GNOME Shell and GNOME Files."
Ok, how do I use it? I don't see it in Nautilus (aka gnome files). I see a search button, but I do not see how to search for a file pattern with a certain content. [...] Ok, found it, and it does locate the "cucarachas" files.
Not easy at all to find it, and each time I need it I have to search first how to do it... Took an hour!
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking? If you started the unknown program from the XFCE menu, then go to the menu entry, right-click and select properties to discover what it is invoking. Since you know it is gnome-search-tool, I suppose you looked at the manual? https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-search-tool/3.6/gnome-search-tool.html says that the 'Contains the text' option 'Search for files of type plain text that contain the specified text'. Since a .odt is not a plain text file is not a plain text file, it is behaving as specified to not find that file. I think a search without options should find all .odt files, so perhaps you didn't actually do that, or perhaps there is a bug. I don't have the program installed to test. The manual also explains all about locate. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org