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Questions tagged [application-finder]

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Application Finder or Launcher for Mate and Gnome Session Fallback?

Mate and Gnome Session Fallback desktop environments are almost alike and really lightweight and it is the most preferred desktop environment for me. Only thing I miss is some way to search installed applications quickly as we do using Unity-Dash.…
Saurav Kumar
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ALT-F3, ALT-F2 doesn't show important applications and files. How to index Xfce/Xubuntu Settings Manager in xfce4-appfinder?

When searching with Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 (that is with xfce4-appfinder) there is no access to the very numerous, important and very often used contents of Settings Manager. It can find Settings Manager itself, but not Keyboard, Display etc, which are…
user47206
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Why some software aren't detectable by the system?

I downloaded Scid from the software center, as far as I know, everything we download from the center should be an apt package, thus it should be detectable by the system. However, scid is not listed in the menu of installed apps, the default…
Lynob
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Show properties of a file right in File Explorer like on Mac

I'm looking for a plugin for Nautilus, or how do I configure it, or maybe use another file manager, that shows the properties of a file, just like the Mac OS X Finder does (image below). Does anyone have an answer? Finder on Mac OS X:
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Script works from command line but not from a command in Application Finder Launcher

I've written a bash script found at directory: /home/harmelodic/.Jetbrains/CLion.sh that performs the following: #!/bin/sh ./clion*/bin/clion.sh This is to run the clion.sh script found at: /home/matthew/.Jetbrains/clion-2016.2.3/bin/clion.sh If…
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Open locations through application finder?

It would be really fast to open most used folders by an application finder or something like that. It worked quite well in windows pressing win+r and type name of a folder shortcut in System32 folder. Is it possible to do something like that in…
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How to make krunner and other launchers show links, not only files

When I enter the name of a file located in ~/ in one of the default folders it is immediately found. But links to other files and folders are not. In order to easily access some files and folders with the launchers I have created links for them in…
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Any Dream Journal/Diary software?

I remember reading about an open-sourced company that developed dream journal software, I think I remember downloading it after i had upgraded to 12.04. Does anyone know if anything exists today, for recording, storing, and analyzing dreams on…
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Is there any application which interacts with the user?

I'm very comfortable while using Linux or Lubuntu although Windows seemed a little faster but it hangs at a certain point. So I would like to thank all the programmers of Linux I really liked it .. I'm looking for an app which makes linux more…
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will the applications of lower version of ubuntu work on higher one

I am using ubuntu 14.04lts, not many applications are there for this. I think it will work. Please also recommend me some trusted website for getting applications for ubuntu 14.04 other than their official website, where only few are there in ubuntu…
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Suggestions for file cataloging software with meta data

In the course of my work I generate gigabytes of data files. These are given fairly generic names that include the time and place. But they do not include a lot of other meta data I would like to store along side the data. Adding the meta data to…
Skye Sweeney
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