[xubuntu-users] If you want a faster xfce4-appfinder...

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon May 5 00:24:54 UTC 2014


On Sun, 04 May 2014 23:05:10 +0100
Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> On 05/04/2014 10:50 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > After a new Ubuntu 14.04/Xfce4 install on a laptop last night,
> > including hotkeying Ctrl+Shift+; to xfce4-appfinder, I found that it
> > took several seconds between pressing the key and the appfinder
> > becoming visible. This was ultra disturbing, and something I'd never
> > seen in any earlier versions of any Linux distros.
> 
> Is this the gizmo whose icon is a magnifying-glass?
> It didn't appear to do anything useful so I removed it from the
> screen.
> 
> > So, to fix the problem, I ran xfce4-appfinder with the
> > --disable-server option, and bang, it came up instantly. I'd like
> > to hear your results.
> 
> I replaced it and modified the properties to include that, and yes
> indeed it now springs into life. I wonder why it was crippled.
> 
> I still don't know what I'd use it for, though. I know what GUI
> applications are installed, and the ones I use are in the dock (I use
> Enlightenment). Unlike Mac's Finder, xfce4-appfinder doesn't appear to
> know about commands, so if I really wanted to know where something
> was, I'd use locate.

Yeah, xfce4-appfinder is only for GUI apps. If you want a more general
finding facility, there's one that finds every permissioned executable
on the path, searching by letters you type in and displaying the
commands across the top of the screen, but I can't remember what it's
called.

SteveT

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