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> missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser I'd forgotten this! Very frustrating when you're used to using this to switch to a file in that directory

by dm319 8y ago

> missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser I'd forgotten this! Very frustrating when you're used to using this to switch to a file in that directory. I also missed split-screen functionality, and the inability to right click and fire up a terminal from that location. Oh, and also looks like they've dropped being able to double-click on an executable .sh file to run it. Luckily none of this bothers me as there is Caja.

rav 8y ago
>> missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser > I'd forgotten this! Very frustrating when you're used to using this to switch to a file in that directory. I agree, but FWIW you can press Ctrl-L to focus the address bar, which allows you to enter a relative path, e.g. name of a file/directory in the current directory.
q3k 8y ago
Restore sanity by applying the following patch: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/q3kverlay/tree/x11-libs/gtk+/files/gtk+-3.22.26-typeahead.patch https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/q3kverlay/tree/x11-libs/gtk+... (or just use this overlay if you run Gentoo)
- sametmax 8y ago
  Any tutorial on this ? And above all, how to automate it so that it's applied after updates ?
  - q3k 8y ago
    Depends on the distribution you use. Some (Debian, Ubuntu) make it extremely annoying to apply your own patches to packages, while others (Arch, Gentoo) make it very easy.
  - halkotron 8y ago
    You can try https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nautilus-typeahead https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nauti... I'll try to keep it up to date. (or the Nemo file browser, which also retained split-window functionality)