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* People complain about system preferences but I use spotlight to find settings when I need them* This is exactly how I do it, and I also do it this way in Ubu
by jamesgill 4y ago
* People complain about system preferences but I use spotlight to find settings when I need them*
This is exactly how I do it, and I also do it this way in Ubuntu. And in both OSes, I hide docks/apps.
- giardini 4y agoUbuntu has spotlight?
- stametseater 4y agoI'm sure you already know it doesn't contain spotlight itself, which belongs to Apple. There exist equivalents that have exactly that same functionality as described above. I don't know what GNOME uses, but KDE's krunner searches system settings, user files and applications, bookmarks, browser tabs, solves arithmetic and unit conversions, does spell checking, searches the web, searches active windows, applications and workspaces, etc.. It's configurable with many plugins available. I expect GNOME's system works similarly.
- jamesgill 4y agoI'm specifically speaking of Ubuntu's version of Gnome, I guess. Press the Super key and a search box appears, a la MacOS's Spotlight. This is how I open apps. There are likely nuances about what is searchable, but in practice it feels the same to me.