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One feature that I really like of GNOME Shell is the possibility to just type the name of a file in the Activities window and have a list of matching files shown, so that you can open them.

However, only the file name is displayed, and not the path.

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  1. Is there any way (setting, external plugin etc.) to also show the path?
  2. If there is not, how would I go to write one? What components need to be edited? Would a GNOME Shell plugin be able to modify the activities window?
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  • The behaviour in the more recent gnome-shell version is the one you want (the file name is listed and also the full path is listed underneath). This assumes the directories are indexed by tracker.
    – don_crissti
    Nov 13, 2015 at 1:51

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I think you may be confusing Unity with Gnome-Shell. Gnome-Shell does not provide any file search capabilities by default and there isn't any extension that does it either, as far as I know. The only thing it does do is search in nautilus bookmarks such as Downloads, Documents, etc and there isn't much to know about them as long as you don't have a ridiculous amount of them.

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    hmmm no, I can assure you I have Gnome-Shell (FC16) and yes, I have a lot of files in there so it would be very useful to know info about it (plus it would be fun to code a plugin :P)
    – nico
    May 13, 2012 at 13:06
  • Debian testing here, a few versions back, so I didn't know. :D
    – nikitautiu
    May 13, 2012 at 14:05
  • my bad... actually, it looks like it's pulling them out of recent items. The need comes from the fact that I have several files with same name in different paths and knowing where they are would help a lot
    – nico
    May 13, 2012 at 16:22
  • Just as an additional info: there is a nice extension for tracker integration into GNOME Shell here. Works very well.
    – nico
    Jun 11, 2012 at 20:53

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