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11-29-2016, 11:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2016
Location: Geneva
Distribution: native install parrot 6.9.7-amd64
Posts: 936
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Where do I find the Search button in Linux?
Where do I find the Search button in Linux? eg
like the one in windows 8.1 lower right hand corner click.
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11-30-2016, 02:54 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Hungary
Distribution: debian/ubuntu/suse ...
Posts: 23,673
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I have never seen windows 8.1, so I do not know what are you looking for. Can you explain what do you want to look for? What kind of linux did you install at all?
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11-30-2016, 03:31 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: USA and Italy
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
Posts: 5,524
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Try: or install mlocate, run and the run . You can also search for partial file names, like .pdf to find all pdf files. There are some GUI search tools, but they're pretty slow compared to locate.
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11-30-2016, 04:51 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2016
Distribution: any&all, in VBox; Ol'UnixCLI; NO GUI resources
Posts: 999
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You might try a web-search for: kde file search
(Also this might be helpful, for getting answers quicker)
Last edited by Jjanel; 11-30-2016 at 04:52 AM.
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11-30-2016, 10:41 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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Quote:
Originally Posted by linux-man
Where do I find the Search button in Linux? eg
like the one in windows 8.1 lower right hand corner click.
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still looking myself. Not really, but this is Linux got a go hard core command line command' O
google how to find stuff in Linux...
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11-30-2016, 11:26 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2011
Location: Texas
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu,CentOS
Posts: 848
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Your distribution says kde. So on KDE, just click the menu launcher and then start typing. names of programs and files will show up in the menu. Similar to Windows.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-30-2016, 09:32 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,773
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I like to use whereis to find executable files (or to verify that they are installed on the system I am using). It does not return the voluminous output of locate. From the man page:
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whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
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12-01-2016, 12:44 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: London
Distribution: PCLinuxOS, Salix
Posts: 6,213
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If I'm looking for files, I use the GUI search tool in the menu: I've lasted for years without learning find or locate! If I'm looking for programs, I use the nice, categorised menu button. Like other people round here, I've never used Windows so I don't know what their search button does. A quick search came up with the button to launch the PA program on a Windows phone, but I don't think that was what you meant.
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12-03-2016, 09:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2012
Location: somehow, somewhere
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 197
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There isn't a search button per se, there are lots of search tools available, terminal (command line) and gui. For gui, try installing Angrysearch, or Catfish, or just Google linux search utilities or as others have mentioned here.
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12-04-2016, 09:38 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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Linux is not Windows.
Oh, and Linux is not Windows.
You will find that Linux doesn't behave like Windows and one should not expect it to. The above posts give some ideas of how to do what you want to do using Linux. When trying to do something using Linux the best way to ask for or google a solution is "How to x on Linux" rather than simply expecting it to be a Windows clone, which it is not.
Apologies for repeating myself but it is important to think about these things in the right way.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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12-04-2016, 01:56 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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you also could install VM then install windows in that then just use that instead .. just a thought... 
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1 members found this post helpful.
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12-05-2016, 03:16 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2010
Location: Near Edinburgh, Scotland
Distribution: Cinnamon Mint 20.1 (Laptop) and 20.2 (Desktop)
Posts: 1,706
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Not sure if this is what you mean... have you tried the little "flag" button between the <CTRL> and <ALT> button at the bottom left of your keyboard.  I can't think of another use for it.
Play Bonny!

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12-05-2016, 07:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Minnesota, US
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro
Posts: 1,791
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If you're using the Mate DE, install mate-search-tool if it isn't already installed, then add the launcher to a panel wherever it's convenient.
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