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#1 2008-12-14 19:45:17

originalsurfmex
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what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

im trying to find a good gui based search utility on openbox.  all of these that index in the background and stuff might not be what i want, im trying to keep things as low memory as possible.

ive been using updatedb and locate, and that works perfectly.  except is hard to navigate and organize when it finds too many files.

is there a gui based one for arch that does this? i found something called kwickfind, but thats some kind of weird script.

[edit]
also, i found the search on pcmanfm to be inconsistent - wich is not good.  maybe im using it incorrectly...

Last edited by originalsurfmex (2008-12-14 19:47:47)

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#2 2008-12-14 20:29:39

bandito
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

You can give catfish a go, however you might come across .pyc issue with 0.3.1. The solution is described here.

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#3 2008-12-15 04:06:07

originalsurfmex
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

thank you very much, thats the ticket.  the pkgbuild (using ABS) had the wrong path to file - heres my pkgbuild (i removed the md5 cuz i dont know how to do that)

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.3 2007/10/21 14:37:50 pizzapunk Exp $
# Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com>

pkgname=catfish
pkgver=0.3.2
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="Frontend for different search engines"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish"
license=('GPL')
depends=('pygtk' 'pyxdg')
install=catfish.install
source=(http://www.twotoasts.de/media/catfish/catfish-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/catfish-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr

  # Correct symlinks
  sed -i 's|ln -sf $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share|ln -sf ..|' Makefile
  # Correct permissions
  sed -i 's|install $(APPNAME)\.|install -m644 $(APPNAME).|' Makefile

  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

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#4 2008-12-15 07:21:50

bandito
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

For generating a md5sum, take a look at The Arch package making HOW-TO - with guidelines

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#5 2008-12-15 14:23:09

originalsurfmex
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

wow, that was easy thanks.

using

makepkg -g >>PKGBUILD

here is the updated pkgbuild with md5 if anyone is interested:

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.3 2007/10/21 14:37:50 pizzapunk Exp $
# Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com>

pkgname=catfish
pkgver=0.3.2
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc="Frontend for different search engines"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish"
license=('GPL')
depends=('pygtk' 'pyxdg')
install=catfish.install
source=(http://www.twotoasts.de/media/catfish/catfish-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('b28db355094bfbe7de097678e91ce271')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/catfish-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr

  # Correct symlinks
  sed -i 's|ln -sf $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX)/share|ln -sf ..|' Makefile
  # Correct permissions
  sed -i 's|install $(APPNAME)\.|install -m644 $(APPNAME).|' Makefile

  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

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#6 2008-12-15 16:17:02

SiC
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

I'd recommend beagle, which I've found to be outstanding. I understand your desire to keep memory footprint as low as possible, but on my system the beagle daemon uses about 3MB of ram, which I don't consider to be excessive.

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#7 2008-12-15 17:04:36

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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

I know you wanted a GUI, but I still think find/grep/locate beats any GUI.  It doesn't take much time to figure out their syntax usage and it'll pay for itself almost overnight.

Last edited by thayer (2008-12-15 17:04:50)


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#8 2008-12-15 17:16:50

originalsurfmex
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Re: what search utility do you recommend on openbox (stand alone)?

yeah, beagle was kinda the number 2 choice, its just that i run lots of graphics programs and do 3d rendering, so my resources regularly max out (both cpu and ram).  between sketchup, blender, kerkythea and voodoo - i need all the memory i can get my hands on.

...thanks for the advice on grep...the main thing is that i im kinda used to just double-clicking on a serach file and having open, for that i need a gui right?  but thanks to arch im getting more comfy with the console all time...maybe i just need to get more nimble with these commands, which is a new concept for a graphics-dude.

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