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

• Command-line Options – Parameters for starting Catfish

• python 3
• GTK+
• GLib (GLib / GObject Python bindings: GdkPixbuf, GLib, GTK 3, Pango, Cairo, Xfconf)
• Pexpect
• locate or mlocate

• catfish 4.16.4 released (2022/07/17 22:53)

  catfish 4.16.4 is now available for download from
  
    https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.4.tar.bz2
    https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.4.tar.bz2?sha1
    https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.4.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 4.16.4
  ========================
  - Add "Open with" right click item and dialog (#12)
  - Add a command-line option for setting default sort method
  - Add Ctrl+A accelerator for the treeview (#64)
  - Add option to show file size in binary or decimal
  - Cosmetic changes for search entry and delete dialog
  - Fix Ctrl+H not always toggling hidden files
  - Fix DE detection when launched from Electron apps
  - Fix exo file manager lookup for non-existent keys (#64)
  - Fix file manager lookup outside of Xfce
  - Fix GNOME DE detection in Ubuntu
  - Improve application menu appearance
  - Improve default width for the sidebar
  - Prepend the project root directory to sys.path
  - Support running without Xfconf (no preference saving)
  - Switch to using the super() method
  - Use correct executable for elementary Files
  - 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

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