[opensuse] Search by content does not work for me.
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! -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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
On 03/10/2019 17.14, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:27:54 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
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?
Me neither... I don't know if I did it right.
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.
I'm on another computer now. It seamed to be "gnome-search-tool". Now on this laptop machine, I see instead another tool called "catfish" which works. I don't know if it has a content database, because it seems to use locate; and I don't see how to enter both a file pattern and a contents pattern. The nautilus search, which now I know where to find it, worked instantly. So, problem solved :-D -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.1 (Legolas))
On 3/10/19 11:27 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
[pruned] Use mc (midnight commander) BC -- Adolescence n: Stage between puberty and adultery. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/10/2019 03.35, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 3/10/19 11:27 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
[pruned]
Use mc (midnight commander)
Certainly, but that can take hours to run to end. The goal is to use the existing (in my machine) content index, taking severa hundreds megabytes, which should go fast. And it is, depending on the machine I get an answer in seconds. The error is that the "search" application does not use it. Instead I have to use nautilus search plugin. Once I found that, all is OK. But it is a different system than it was a year or two ago. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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