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This might be a silly question, but I wonder if there is something similar to krunner that is available for xfce desktop? So what I need is a universal search tool that will find any file or program installed on my machine and for programs it will give me an option to launch it directly?
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I have Synapse installed. I use it and the Linux Lite menu (ie. the Whisker Menu) to search programs.
For file search, the Linux Lite File Search (ie. Catfish) program works good for that. There is even an option in the File Search program you can select to search the contents of a file.
Another program which can also index files, so that you can search based on the contents of the files, is called Recoll. It can be installed via Install/Remove Software.
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Synapse is cool, but to search programs, it is just as easy to hit the left Super (ie. Windows) button and start typing to search through the Menu of applications. Linux Lite already has that button as a keyboard shortcut.
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I cheat
Code:
harry@biker:~$ sudo updatedb
[sudo] password for harry:
harry@biker:~$ locate man_cave
/home/harry/Pictures/man_cave.JPG
harry@biker:~$ locate leafpad
/etc/skel/.config/leafpad
/etc/skel/.config/leafpad/leafpadrc
/etc/skel/.local/share/applications/leafpad.desktop
/home/harry/.config/leafpad
/home/harry/.config/leafpad/leafpadrc
/home/harry/.local/share/applications/leafpad.desktop
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/128x128/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/16x16/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/22x22/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/24x24/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/32x32/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/48x48/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/64x64/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/Ardis icon theme/96x96/apps/leafpad.png
/home/harry/icons/STEAMPUNK-1.8/apps/192/leafpad.svg
/usr/bin/leafpad
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/leafpad:leafpad.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/leafpad.svg
/usr/share/applications/leafpad.desktop
/usr/share/doc/leafpad
/usr/share/doc/leafpad/README
/usr/share/doc/leafpad/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/leafpad/copyright
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/24/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/32/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/64/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/96/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/leafpad.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/leafpad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/leafpad.svg
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/leafpad.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/leafpad.1.gz
/usr/share/menu/leafpad
/usr/share/pixmaps/leafpad.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/leafpad.xpm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafpad.prerm
harry@biker:~$
Seeing /usr/bin/leafpad in the readout tells me that typing in terminal
Will launch leafpad. If I want to make a custom desktop launcher. My readout also shows me the location of the files needed to do that. The readout is instantaneous.
But then. I am not much of graphical guii/gtk type of computer user. Because I learned a little command line teaches more than a pretty window saying nothing.
But to each their own way.
Code:
harry@biker:~$ curl wttr.in/79772
Weather for Zipcode: 79772
\ / Sunny
.-. 48 – 51 °F
― ( ) ― ↓ 8 mph
`-’ 9 mi
/ \ 0.0 in
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 18. Nov ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │ \ / Clear │
│ .-. 42 – 48 °F │ .-. 51 – 55 °F │ .-. 60 °F │ .-. 57 °F │
│ ― ( ) ― 8 – 13 mph │ ― ( ) ― 10 – 13 mph │ ― ( ) ― 8 – 13 mph │ ― ( ) ― 5 – 11 mph │
│ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │
│ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sat 19. Nov ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │ \ / Clear │
│ .-. 35 – 39 °F │ .-. 44 – 50 °F │ .-. 50 – 53 °F │ .-. 42 – 46 °F │
│ ― ( ) ― ← 3 – 6 mph │ ― ( ) ― ← 9 – 11 mph │ ― ( ) ― ← 8 – 13 mph │ ― ( ) ― ← 7 – 14 mph │
│ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │
│ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sun 20. Nov ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │ \ / Partly cloudy │
│ .-. 42 °F │ .-. 55 °F │ .-. 62 – 64 °F │ _ /"".-. 57 °F │
│ ― ( ) ― ↑ 1 – 3 mph │ ― ( ) ― 1 – 2 mph │ ― ( ) ― ← 5 – 9 mph │ \_( ). ← 3 – 7 mph │
│ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ /(___(__) 6 mi │
│ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ 0.0 in | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
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harry@biker:~$
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