On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 17:17 +0300, / vt wrote: > Hi, > > I switched from Debian 7 to Debian 8. The nautilus file browser is > now > updated and I am particularly interested in removing one of its new > features. The new 'search as you type' feature does not make sense to > me. > If I wanted to search for a file starting down from the current > directory I > would expect to hit CTRL+F or just use the terminal. And while > browsing > through the file system I would expect that I select files when I > type on > the keyboard, not search for them recursively. This is slow and > breaks user > experience. At least that's my point of view. So, do you know how I > can get > the "old" search back. I tried > > gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive > -search true > > > but it seems that there is no such key in Debian - I read this in an > Ubuntu > forum. I got used to Nautilus so I would like to continue using it. > But if > there is no way to get the old search back I will switch to something > orthodox that can do it.
There is Ctrl + S that is quite handy. Otherwise you might try the different forks of Nautilus provided by other desktop environments, Nemo and Caja (I think?). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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