The GNOME Deskbar applet serves as a one-stop shop for all of your desktop searching needs. Deskbar manages this by using various plugins to interact with different Linux desktop search tools. But Deskbar isn’t limited to just a search tool. With Deskbar you can: search with Beagle, search the web, recent documents, launch programs, calculate [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 16th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Omnipresent Search Interface GNOME Deskbar
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 1st, 2009
- Comments: 6
Let Catfish search for your files
If you need to do any searching for files on a Linux system you know your choices for reliable searching are Beagle, locate, and find. Outside of that the results will vary. The only problem with Beagle is that it can be resource intensive, because it is an indexing search. Find and locate are good [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 14th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Enable Beagle Searching in GNOME
The Beagle indexing tool takes searching your computer to another level. Beagle uses background indexing so searching is updated in real time and as files are created. Even email is indexed upon arrival, IM chats are indexed as they occur, and web pages are indexed as they load. Beagle not only searches the text of [...]
