quick search function on gnome-shell
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I used Synapse (on Trisquel Mini) until recently, to locate and open folders/documents quickly. I switched to gnome-shell today (thanks for your help onpon, lembas, and riaz). Is there a way to search for documents and folders quickly on gnome-shell, similar to Synapse?
Can't Synapse work on GNOME Shell? If not, try a GNOME Shell extension. Maybe http://rastersoft.com/programas/panther_launcher.html (under the GNU GPLv3).
I'm sure that you're right; Synapse will probably work on Gnome Shell. I was hesitant to install it because Gnome Shell already has a search field. Is it possible to use that search field for searching directories like Synapse?
Still I am open to using Synapse
When you open that activities overview thingie there's a "type to search" slot.
It pretty much searches for everything - or at least it should so try it and see how it finds your files (or not). (If it doesn't check to see if GNOME's tracker (not sure what the exact name is) is installed)
Thanks for your help guys.
I might go back to Trisquel Mini. It's functional and quick. Gnome Shell is very pretty but it takes an extra second to do things (because the animations are nicer, or when searching in the file browser it does a full search rather than immediately attempting to match the first character in that directory).
For any search that is more complicated ... Synapse is great. Synapse makes Gnome Shell's Activities/Search feature redundant.
For some reason I can't make Icedove work properly after reformatting. I'll figure it out ... it's okay as long as my webmail works.
I'm surprised that Gnome Shell works on my computer, and I like it a lot, but it's just not for me.
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I just read in the Spanish forum a guy is also having issues with the latest version of Icedove. It may be a bug. The mate in question solved it by forcing the downgrade of Icedove to a previous version as a temporary solution.
Thanks for the heads up. I noticed a new pane in Icedove that shows calendar information ... I probably have the same new version as the guy in the Spanish forum. I can't connect to one email account, and can only download mail (but cannot send mail) from another.
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yw muhammed! I have the latest version on Debian 8 stable and I don't have any issue with my mail account.. You may also try Xfce, which is a great DE, very stable and nice and as fast as LXDE.
EDIT: and yeah, definitely a bug in the latest version of Icedove.. Take a look at this thread
Actually before you go back to LXDE I should note you can install synapse in GNOME Shell.
But anyway, enjoy LXDE. Give something like Budgie a go sometime though (or Cinnamon, etc)!
Magic Bananna suggested this too, and I installed Synapse in Gnome Shell. I felt that there was a little overlap between Shell's functions and Synapse's functions, but that's fine. I decided to go back to lxde for now though.
I'll try Budgie one day; thanks for the suggestion. I haven't heard about it before. I'll search for pictures on the Internet.
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