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    Gnome 3 shell question. Anyone know what this is for.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by ral, Oct 30, 2011.

  1. ral

    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    If I type on the keyboard on the blank homescreen this box pops up on the right bottom corner.

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    Anyone know what it is for?

    TIA
     
    ral, Oct 30, 2011
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    naticus Notebook Deity

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    I'm using GNOME-shell + Ubuntu 11.10 x64 + many extensions and this does not happen on my system.

    It could be a distro specific extension to the shell or a bug.

    Is that Fedora or Ubuntu w/ gnome-shell?
     
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    Is it a search bar of some sort? Try putting some stuff on your desktop and searching for it
     
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    Tried it. You are correct. It will search through things you have stored in your desktop folder. Not sure of what practical use that is though.
     
    ral, Oct 30, 2011
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    Is this when you have nautilus operating the desktop?
     
    v1k1ng1001, Oct 30, 2011
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    Yes. Nautilus operating the desktop, and only when you have not launched a single app. Once you have something running, you cannot access it anymore.
     
    ral, Oct 31, 2011
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    Yeah that's it, it's the normal nautilus find functionality when you start typing.

    It seems to be enabled even if you don't have desktop icons enabled.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Nov 4, 2011
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