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spotlight like in mac os

Postby Wist on Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:17 pm

Hey,

So I switched from mac os to mint (I love it), and the only thing that I seriously miss is spotlight. Is it possible to set up a spotlight-like search function in cinnamon?

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Re: spotlight like in mac os

Postby Kikito on Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:39 pm

While certainly not the same, there are apps like Synapse or Gnome Do that have similar capabilities from what Wikipedia tells me Spotlight does. There may be a better fitting alternative, though.
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Re: spotlight like in mac os

Postby bimsebasse on Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:00 am

Synapse is great (Gnome Do too but it was discontinued long ago) but I haven't tried it in Cinnamon. It can be found in Software Manager, try it out (launch combo is/was Ctrl+Space).
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Re: spotlight like in mac os

Postby Wist on Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:43 pm

Sorry, was away for a few days. Synapse is perfect, thanks :)
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