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Catfish

GTK+ desktop search frontend. Created by Christian Dywan, Nancy Runge

Free Open Source
Linux
GTK+
Xfce
PyGTK

Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.

Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+.

Requirements: PyGtk, GTK+3, python-xdg, dbus

Catfish is listed in

Files Search Tools [Linux]

Link to official Catfish site

Official Website

Features

Autocompletion File Searching Add a feature

Category

File Management

Tags

filtering xfce

Catfish was added by a13ph in Mar 2011 and the latest update was made in Aug 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2019. It's possible to update the information on Catfish or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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