MATE search tool cannot find text files with known content
I run Debian buster with the Mate desktop - recently upgraded from stretch. If I launch mate-search-tool from the panel, I get the message "No files found". I experimented with launching from the command line - obtained via mate-terminal. Here are the results:
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~$ mate-search-tool NONE found I am hoping that someone knows of a config file that may need tuning? |
From the man page:
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Thanks individual for your two comments. To answer in reverse order:
I get a root terminal using Code:
Mate->Applications->System Tools->Root Terminal Code:
(mate-search-tool:6497): EggSMClient-WARNING **: 14:54:52.281: For your other question, I do not have the updatedb command available. This is provided by the packages dlocate and mlocate, neither of which are installed on my system. I am wondering which is better for my simple requirements - basically searching through the file system looking for particular bits of text? I have been doing a bit of digging, as apart from this mate-search-tool issue I also have GUI issues in pluma. I sometimes find a huge number of errors reported in .xsession-errors, many associated with mate and I wonder if those are relevant? But I think those issues should be in different thread. Just one more thing: the root terminal is launched from gksu , and it turns out that gksu is obsoleted. It is used in several of the mate utilities. |
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/usr/share/dlocate/updatedb I wonder if I have the right package? What exactly is updatedb supposed to do? |
updatedb updates the db (sic) that the locate cmd uses :)
I never rely on that because it's only right immediately after a run (from cron usually) daily. I just use good old 'find', which is slower because it actually goes and searches the disk immediately, but I usually have at least a rough idea where stuff is, so I rarely search the whole disk. |
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Please show us the actual terminal output. Also add Code:
ls -l /usr/bin/mate-search-tool |
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However, rerunning the experiments, I went one step further to see the command result. I have repeated all the experiments. They give the same results and I have shown just the first and last here. I have added your request and shown the command result as well - all copied as is from the terminal :). Code:
~$ ls -lF /usr/bin/mate-search-tool |
^ OK, thanks for explaining it better.
What are you searching for? Possibly you (normal user) just don't have permission to look inside the files that contain it. BTW, running a GUI tool as root can mess things up. Try not to do it. |
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