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ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

[SOLVED] Gnome 3.12 search results in Activities overview

When I'm searching for an application in the Activities overview I'm getting the icons on the top row of matching applications, and beneath that I have 4 empty rows of search results: 1 for Terminal, 1 for Files, 1 for Keys and 1 for Weather.
Those 4 categories are available in Gnome Control Center under the Search button and are activated. When I completely disable the Search option in the titlebar of Control Center and I restart Gnome-Shell with the 'r' command, I have normal behaviour again. When I enable the Search function and restart Gnome-Shell I get those ugly empty rows again which clutter my search results. Turning on or off 1 of those individual search categories doesn't make a difference, the rows are always empty.

I have a complete up to date stable Gnome 3.12 x64 desktop. I can't remember having this behaviour on 3.10 or having changed the search options lately.
Is there a way to populate the search categories or should I reset some settings / delete some cache? What's the search engine behind all this?

Last edited by ulukai (2014-05-08 20:25:21)

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.12 search results in Activities overview

I don't know what's causing your problem but I can answer your final question. GNOME Shell uses a search engine/metadata storage system called tracker. Apart from GNOME Shell itself, tracker has a frontend called tracker-needle and a configuration tool called tracker-preferences. Hope this helps somewhat.

ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.12 search results in Activities overview

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Chazza!

I installed Tracker (because it wasn't installed yet), configured it, had it index my locations, turn on searching for Files and Weather and logged in again. After that it worked flawlessly.

Last edited by ulukai (2014-05-08 20:26:07)