On 12/10/2017 10:26 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 12/10/2017 05:36 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/09/2017 11:45 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 12/09/2017 07:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where
the desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an
unfamiliar program or I know that very similar file names exist in
several folders.
I'm not interest in alternatives to "MATE Search Tool" because it is
easy to use various options.
Therefore, I wish to set "Look in folder: to "File System".
How?
Just a guess off the top of my head, but could you us the folder / as
the response to "Look in folder:" ?
That's the desired outcome.
HOWEVER, "MATE Search Tool" takes the "G" in GUI seriously ;/
"Look in folder:" is the label of a drop-down menu.
"File System" is one of the items in that list of labels:
"richard" (/home/richard)
"Desktop" (/home/richard/Desktop)
"File System" (/)
-then a list of the labels of other partitions *mounted/unmounted*
"Other" (a Thunar-like display for choosing a directory)
I have not discovered a pattern in how the default for "Look in
folder:" is determined.
I generally wish to force that entry to be "File System".
Ah. I misunderstood.
I'm using Ubuntu MATE, and have the same tool.
Duck-Duck Go gave a lot of useless (for this purpose) results.
So I noticed ;{
Google included this:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/man1/mate-search-tool.1.html
As I'm a Debian user I already looked at their man page (no difference
in content).
It's possible to set it when it is launched. There's probably a way to
do it, but I don't know where you'd make that change. It does work if
you launch it from a command line. I tried:
mate-search-tool --path="/"
Does indeed work from the command line.
But claims to be a GUI.
One of things I expect from a GUI which presents a list of choices from
a drop down menu is there be a GUI way to reset the default choice.
That did make "File System" the default. I started it again from the gui
and the default change stuck. I don't know how long it will stick, but
until someone speaks up with the right way to change the options for the
gui, it's a start.
Dat's the problem.
"MATE Search Tool" is a command line tool masquerading as a GUI.
I'm mentally outlining a Tcl/Tk script to be the GUI done right.
I haven't done much with Tcl/Tk, none on a Linux box.
I think it has the right amount of challenge to be a good exercise.
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