File search in PorteuX

Post#1 by **roro** » 19 Aug 2023, 11:42

Hi all,
in Porteus there is a program pfilesearch.
This is missing in PorteuX.
Which good and fast file search program is recommended for porteuX ?

Post#2 by **porteux** » 20 Aug 2023, 19:23

Which desktop environment are you using?

Post#3 by **roro** » 21 Aug 2023, 11:57

Hi porteux,
I am using Xfce

Post#4 by **roadie** » 21 Aug 2023, 16:04

roro wrote: ↑
21 Aug 2023, 11:57
Hi porteux,
I am using Xfce

@roro,

I'm not in PorteuX at the moment, but you should already have "mate-search-tool". Porteus has it, but it doesn't show in the applications menu as the file /usr/share/applications/mate-search-tool.desktop needs to be edited to add the Xfce desktop......it currently allows showing only in Mate desktop on line 176 of the desktop file.

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OnlyShowIn=MATE;

Change to XFCE; and it will appear in the applications menu. You can also use the "Run Program" menu item to start mate-search-tool if you prefer not to do any editing.

EDIT: Yes, looking at the Xfce module shows that the PorteuX version has the same bug.

Post#5 by **porteux** » 21 Aug 2023, 19:41

Additionally, you can access the search tool in Xfce by pressing F3 while using Xfce's file manager (Thunar).

@roadie, thanks for the bug report. It's fixed for the next release

Post#6 by **Rava** » 07 Sep 2023, 10:13

XFCE's thunar has its own file search as is implemented in the context menu in Porteus.

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thunar -B FILENAME1 FILENAME2 […]  FILENAMEn

or

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thunar --bulk-rename FILENAME1 FILENAME2 […]  FILENAMEn

opens the bulk rename dialog.

I agree that for XFCE version of PorteuX there should be a setting in thunar that gives the option via thunar's context menu (just like it is solved in Porteus by default)