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mevsme
Asked: 2021-06-26 04:52:53 +0800 CST

Which desktop environment will let me jump to the next file with the same first letter in filename, when I press a key few times with delay [duplicate]

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I am pretty annoyed with this on Gnome that when you hit a key few times you end up typing a word in the search bar instead of jumping to the next search result.

Are there some other DE that do it like Windows? It is far more convenient way to find something quick imo. Why this is impossible on Ubuntu?

Here is the demonstration in total commander

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I tried a few file managers in a VM and Konqueror seems to meet your needs in that particular instance. Install with sudo apt install konqueror. You might want to switch to e.g. Kubuntu for good though, because it needs all the KDE dependencies, and it looks out of place in GNOME, but since you were asking for a desktop environment anyway that might not be a problem for you.

    I found this relevant piece of information in the docs

    Select a file or folder by typing the first few letters of its name and the first matching item is selected. To clear the selection and cancel the keyboard search press Esc or wait longer than the timeout of 1 second.

    (emphasis mine)

    I did find, however, that you don't need to wait if it's unambiguous.

    A (not so) fancy gif to show how it's working

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  2. Caja file-manager (from caja package) provides this functionality - see screencast below:

    Caja

    Note: Esc is really not needed, you can wait for timeout to be reached.

    Also you maybe interest in removing GNOMEs Hell and installing whole traditional and cool MATE Desktop environment instead. See this Q&A for details.

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