Reporting Bugs - Catfish
If you are experiencing a bug in Catfish, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce Gitlab. Note: For this you will need to have/create an account.
Before reporting a new bug, please try your best to check if it has already been reported (see the latest reports below). Click here for a full list of bug reports.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bug Reports:
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in brackets. To see the full list via GitLab, go here.
- Searching pdf contents blocks ui. (2025/05/31 19:03)
- Is using OR logical operator in search possible? (2025/04/03 16:23)
- Please document how the search field can be used (2025/04/03 16:21)
- Key focus shifts to directory menu (2025/03/21 16:47)
- Setting to allow some items in menu to show up in sidebar (2025/02/13 03:41)
- [Feature Request] Add ability to clear previous results (2024/12/04 02:51)
- Add sidebar category context menu to show and hide categories (2024/11/26 10:28)
- Update the results label shown in tag at bottom right of window (2024/11/21 19:43)
- [Feature Request] Add a status bar at the bottom (2024/11/21 19:41)
- Sort items by creation date (2024/11/16 05:00)
- Filename column strange sorting if possible match Thunar (2024/11/16 05:00)
- Catfish search should not run indefinitely. It should timeout. (2024/11/10 06:39)
- FR | Add content search for doc/odt/rtf/htm (2024/10/28 03:21)
- Unclear whether license is either `GPL-2.0-or-later` or `GPL-2.0-only` (2024/04/29 23:09)
- Holding a modifier when Catfish loses focus disables right-click (2023/10/11 10:57)
- catfish shows files only after it is stopped (2023/07/31 08:07)
- Feature Request: libarchive instead of python zipfile (2023/07/30 09:26)