<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>If you are interested in software
development, you could check how it is implemented for thunar(or
exo?), and try the same for xfdesktop.</div></div></blockquote><div>Here's what I did to serve my needs. So far I love it.<br></div><div>Well, unfortunately key presses only result in matches of icon labels of ASCII characters.<br></div><div>Everything is case insensitive on purpose.<br></div><div>In the attachment there are two patches. One that I tested is from Xubuntu 18.04's XFCE 4.12.3. And one that is against the latest commit in xfce's mirror in github: eec0c9b2ca7227b65184e2840f2c3e99aa8678b3 xfce-4.14.0-100-geec0c9b2. I haven't tested the latter yet but I think it should work.<br></div><div>I'll be glad if someone can make a review. If it is not OK give me some feedback and I'll try to fix it.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Boris<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:11 PM Alex <<a href="mailto:acs82@gmx.de">acs82@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Boris,</div>
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<div>afaik xfdesktop does not have such a
feature.</div>
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<div>> Any ideas what to check / edit /
fix to have this?</div>
<div>If you are interested in software
development, you could check how it is implemented for thunar(or
exo?), and try the same for xfdesktop.</div>
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<div>IMO it would be a nice feature. Patches
would be very welcome !</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Alex<br>
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<div>Am 12.02.20 um 17:27 schrieb Boris
Astardzhiev:<br>
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<div>Hello,</div>
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<div>I'm a long time user of XFCE. So far it's been perfect -
stable, solid, robust just as I demand.</div>
<div>It's one thing that I miss and I can't seem to find
searching for it on the internet.<br>
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<div>When I am at the desktop view seeing all my icons (I have
many documents and folders) I ask how can I search for icons
by name with a keystroke. For example If I continuously press
's' I would like to be shown sequentially icons starting with
's' (case insensitive would be a good option).</div>
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<div>Any ideas what to check / edit / fix to have this?</div>
<div>What I do now is to open Thunar, go to Desktop and press
's' to find what I'm looking for but it would have been easier
and more convenient to have this at the desktop view with the
icons just pressing the appropriate letter.<br>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Boris<br>
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