If you're not afraid of the command line, there's locate and mlocate. I haven't used them myself, but I've heard good things about them.
--c_smith On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 12:46 AM John R. Sowden <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been having problems with catfish for years, but it seems that I > am the only one. > > xubuntu 18.04 1 gb ram, lots of empty disp space > > This afternoon, I made the foolish mistake to try to find files with the > word 'groove' in them. I ran catfish, clicked on file system, clicked > on the wheel icon and selected 'find in contents', or whatever. After a > while (I left the computer as I supposed that it would take a while), I > came back. the catifish window was gone. It still showed in the > 'panel' at the top. Maximize did nothing, clicking on the icon did > nothing. Finally after about 1.5 hours, I clicked on 'close', I got the > window saying its having a problem closing. I also had a mousepad text > file opened. All was grayed on, and would not respond. I tried to > close all programs before closing catfish. no luck. after I closed > catfish, then the text file become active, so I could close it. I > reopened catfish, same settings, same no response, moved to a different > screen, played a game of freecell, came back and the screen was blank > (with background), but the workspace showed it was active, and the > lighter area on the panel was there indicating a program was running. > > Is there an alternative? > > of what? > > John > > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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