What does the cog wheel in Ubuntu's Settings > Search do?
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I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a virtual machine. After fully updating the system via the command line, I looked at various options in Settings.
The bottom row of the Search window has a cog wheel on the right and up and down arrows on the left. If an item is selected, the arrow keys move it up or down in the list.
But what does the cog wheel 
do? It stays grey whether or not an item in the list is selected.
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I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a virtual machine. After fully updating the system via the command line, I looked at various options in Settings.
The bottom row of the Search window has a cog wheel on the right and up and down arrows on the left. If an item is selected, the arrow keys move it up or down in the list.
But what does the cog wheel do? It stays grey whether or not an item in the list is selected.
18.04 gui search
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
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I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a virtual machine. After fully updating the system via the command line, I looked at various options in Settings.
The bottom row of the Search window has a cog wheel on the right and up and down arrows on the left. If an item is selected, the arrow keys move it up or down in the list.
But what does the cog wheel do? It stays grey whether or not an item in the list is selected.
18.04 gui search
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
9,828103274
I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a virtual machine. After fully updating the system via the command line, I looked at various options in Settings.
The bottom row of the Search window has a cog wheel on the right and up and down arrows on the left. If an item is selected, the arrow keys move it up or down in the list.
But what does the cog wheel do? It stays grey whether or not an item in the list is selected.
18.04 gui search
18.04 gui search
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
9,828103274
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
9,828103274
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
edited Aug 26 at 12:53
pomsky
23.2k77299
23.2k77299
asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
9,828103274
asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
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asked Aug 26 at 11:13
DK Bose
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9,828103274
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The cogwheel lets you customise the search locations (for Files).
But why doesn't this work on Ubuntu 18.04?
Because Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have tracker pre-installed.
tracker is a metadata database, indexer and search tool for GNOME. It increases the speed of searching in the Files app and also supports full-text search. But this comes with a huge cost, it causes high CPU use and/or other performance issues.
That's why Ubuntu developers decided to ship Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 without tracker (see known issues).
If you manually install tracker and re-login, the cogwheel should be activated.
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up vote
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The cogwheel lets you customise the search locations (for Files).
But why doesn't this work on Ubuntu 18.04?
Because Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have tracker pre-installed.
tracker is a metadata database, indexer and search tool for GNOME. It increases the speed of searching in the Files app and also supports full-text search. But this comes with a huge cost, it causes high CPU use and/or other performance issues.
That's why Ubuntu developers decided to ship Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 without tracker (see known issues).
If you manually install tracker and re-login, the cogwheel should be activated.
answered Aug 26 at 12:50
pomsky
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up vote
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accepted
The cogwheel lets you customise the search locations (for Files).
But why doesn't this work on Ubuntu 18.04?
Because Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have tracker pre-installed.
tracker is a metadata database, indexer and search tool for GNOME. It increases the speed of searching in the Files app and also supports full-text search. But this comes with a huge cost, it causes high CPU use and/or other performance issues.
That's why Ubuntu developers decided to ship Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 without tracker (see known issues).
If you manually install tracker and re-login, the cogwheel should be activated.
answered Aug 26 at 12:50
pomsky
23.2k77299
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up vote
4
down vote
accepted
up vote
4
down vote
accepted
The cogwheel lets you customise the search locations (for Files).
But why doesn't this work on Ubuntu 18.04?
Because Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have tracker pre-installed.
tracker is a metadata database, indexer and search tool for GNOME. It increases the speed of searching in the Files app and also supports full-text search. But this comes with a huge cost, it causes high CPU use and/or other performance issues.
That's why Ubuntu developers decided to ship Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 without tracker (see known issues).
If you manually install tracker and re-login, the cogwheel should be activated.
answered Aug 26 at 12:50
pomsky
23.2k77299
The cogwheel lets you customise the search locations (for Files).
But why doesn't this work on Ubuntu 18.04?
Because Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have tracker pre-installed.
tracker is a metadata database, indexer and search tool for GNOME. It increases the speed of searching in the Files app and also supports full-text search. But this comes with a huge cost, it causes high CPU use and/or other performance issues.
That's why Ubuntu developers decided to ship Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 without tracker (see known issues).
If you manually install tracker and re-login, the cogwheel should be activated.
answered Aug 26 at 12:50
pomsky
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edited Aug 26 at 12:56
answered Aug 26 at 12:50
pomsky
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answered Aug 26 at 12:50
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