Re: Nautilus classic search in Jessie?

Ok .. CTRL+S is interesting - it does what I want. I am still baffled by developers' decision to change the default behavior.

Thanks for pointing this out. I will see if I can live with it.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:

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?).

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