Catfish--Easily Find Stuff in Thunar | Linux Today

Catfish–Easily Find Stuff in Thunar

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2008

[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak
for this link. ]

“One could ask, ‘What am I supposed to do when I want to find a
file, if I am using XFCE, and Thunar is my conscious choice as the
file manager?’ It seems to be obvious to click with the
right-mouse-button on the folder in which something to be found is
expected to exist and to choose the option ‘search’ from the
context menu. Thunar bets, however, on the user’s mental powers and
creativeness.

“Available options are:

  • “no ‘search’ option in Thunar’s menu,
  • “a keyboard shortcut such as ctrl+f which moves us just to the
    name of the file/folder in Thunar’s current directory,
  • “adding an external program to Thunar’s menu which will be
    responsible for searching…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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