Search for file name in Dolphin

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Dvorak,  any relation to Prof Dvorak who designed the keyboard layout I 
have used for many years??

one reason I finally switched to Linux was Red Hat supported the dvorak 
keyboard when others didn't

Bob



On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, George Dvorak wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 23:10:25 -0700
> From: George Dvorak <gldvorak at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Search for file name in Dolphin
> 
> Valorie, krunner only finds text in Libreoffice for me. In general I use
> kfind when I know the approximate point in the file structure. Krusader is
> the best for general searches where I have no ideas. Krusader can skip
> sections of the file structure where I know that I do not want to search
> like, /proc. This greatly speeds up the search.
>
> The search in Dolphin only works if I know the terminal directory to search
> in.
>
> It may be that I do not know how to use krunner. One of the turn offs for
> me is a long list without a scroll bar. This sort of thing is something
> that I find with many new apps that are meant to replace perfectly good old
> apps.
>
> And NO I can not bottom post in Foxpro!
>
> George
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now that krunner is so good, I rarely open Dolphin to find files any
>> more. Just alt+f2 and start typing. You'll have a nice drop-down list
>> to select from.
>>
>> Krunner does a lot of other nifty stuff as well, but finding files or
>> launching apps is mostly what I use it for.
>>
>> Hth,
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Marcelo Magno T. Sales
>> <mmtsales at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do a search for a file name in Dolphin, without using
>>> desktop search? For some reason, nothing is ever found when a search for
>>> anything and I really don't need desktop search. I only need a simple,
>> old
>>> fashioned, file name search. Is it possible? How?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Marcelo
>>
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