Catfish File Search
Introduction
Catfish is a handy file searching tool for Linux and Unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.
You are encouraged to run catfish –help to check out the various command line options.
- Introduction to Catfish – What makes Catfish special
- Usage – Basic handling of the application
Configuration
- Command-line Options – Parameters for starting Catfish
Required Packages
- GLib (GLib / GObject Python bindings: GdkPixbuf, GLib, GTK 3, Pango, Cairo, Xfconf)
- locate or mlocate
Latest Release
- catfish 4.16.3 released (2021/09/26 13:52)
catfish 4.16.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is catfish? ================ Catfish is a handy file searching tool for linux and unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options. Website: https://xfce.org Release notes for 4.16.3 ======================== General: - Update "Searching..." Cursor Bug Fixes: - Sidebar background color bugfix - Fixes for syntax, fulltext zip search, special files (fixes #62) - Adds symbolic link icons, better icon updating (fixes #46) Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian