On 12/10/2017 02:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
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,
I've done several runs without the path option after having specified it.
It appears to remember whatever path was last set. That solves my
immediate problem.
Thanks.
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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