[xubuntu-users] catfish issues

[Cody Smith]

If you're not afraid of the command line, there's locate and mlocate. I
haven't used them myself, but I've heard good things about them.

--c_smith

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 12:46 AM John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net>
wrote:

> I have been having problems with catfish for years, but it seems that I
> am the only one.
>
> xubuntu 18.04  1 gb ram, lots of empty disp space
>
> This afternoon, I made the foolish mistake to try to find files with the
> word 'groove' in them.  I ran catfish, clicked on file system, clicked
> on the wheel icon and selected 'find in contents', or whatever.  After a
> while (I left the computer as I supposed that it would take a while), I
> came back.  the catifish window was gone.  It still showed in the
> 'panel' at the top. Maximize did nothing, clicking on the icon did
> nothing.  Finally after about 1.5 hours, I clicked on 'close', I got the
> window saying its having a problem closing.  I also had a mousepad text
> file opened.  All was grayed on, and would not respond.  I tried to
> close all programs before closing catfish. no luck.  after I closed
> catfish, then the text file become active, so I could close it.  I
> reopened catfish, same settings,  same no response, moved to a different
> screen, played a game of freecell, came back and the screen was blank
> (with background), but the workspace showed it was active, and the
> lighter area on the panel was there indicating a program was running.
>
> Is there an alternative?
>
> of what?
>
> John
>
>
>
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