(I understand that Nautilus has been renamed "Gnome Files". But ps(1) calls it nautilus, and so does the manpage, so I will too.) I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy feature that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of search for that filename. Very, very slowly. What I have wanted and expected is a filter of the filenames in the directory being shown. That should be fast. I don't know what I'm getting, but in the end it seems to be such a filter. The trouble is that the search takes several minutes. How could that be? Impatiently, I poked at it with strace and gdb. But only a little. It seems to be in a poll command, waiting for something. I would guess that that something is tracker. Who knows what tracker is doing? Gnome is so stripped-down that there doesn't seem to be a way of configuring Nautilus from Nautilus. Gnome Tweaks doesn't offer Nautilus customization. Nautilus Help offers nothing. Is there a way of configuring Nautilus to just do a simple directory filter? (I have found no "help" in any Nautilus menu. This seems like a design mistake. In desperation, I tried the manpage. The manpage is almost useless but it tells me to press F1 for help. I'm NOT a fan of function keys and go years without intentionally striking one.) Is there a good way to figure out why tracker is so slow? Is there a good way to speed up tracker? There is no manpage for tracker so I don't know much about it. Gnome Help has nothing about Tracker. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/H2HNDVVWBVB2OEBUGHLYWSUC57FHKPJN/
