Newby ? How to use Search

mtyoung tuxman at knology.net
Thu Sep 21 13:57:30 UTC 2006


Using Ctrl + F or menu Go/Search produces the same empty "Search results".
This is my first linux install, It came from the livecd just downloaded 
Saturday. Everything else seems to works, thought I'm still learning the 
differences vs XP & OSX.

mtyoung

arndalebilo wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:02:57 -0500, mtyoung wrote:
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>> For the life of me I can't get Search in the File Manager to work at 
>> all. No matter what I enter I get no results.
>>
>> I click the "Computer" icon to open the File Manager, click the search 
>> icon, the entry field appears, I enter the search term (example "grub") 
>> then press the Enter key.
>>
>> This is new install.
>>     
>
> Doesn't work here either. No idea why.  Needs Beagle maybe?
>
> Try menu/places/search for files... 
>
> That seems to work.
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