Nautilus search bar slow
(I understand that Nautilus has been renamed "Gnome Files". But ps(1)
calls it nautilus, and so does the manpage, so I will too.)
I (on Fedora 28) use Nautilus once in a while. There is a handy feature
that if you start typing a filename, it will do some kind of search for
that filename. Very, very slowly.
What I have wanted and expected is a filter of the filenames in the
directory being shown. That should be fast. I don't know what I'm
getting, but in the end it seems to be such a filter.
The trouble is that the search takes several minutes. How could that
be?
Impatiently, I poked at it with strace and gdb. But only a little.
It seems to be in a poll command, waiting for something. I would
guess that that something is tracker. Who knows what tracker is
doing?
Gnome is so stripped-down that there doesn't seem to be a way of
configuring Nautilus from Nautilus. Gnome Tweaks doesn't offer
Nautilus customization. Nautilus Help offers nothing. Is there a way
of configuring Nautilus to just do a simple directory filter?
(I have found no "help" in any Nautilus menu. This seems like a
design mistake. In desperation, I tried the manpage. The manpage is
almost useless but it tells me to press F1 for help. I'm NOT a fan of
function keys and go years without intentionally striking one.)
Is there a good way to figure out why tracker is so slow?
Is there a good way to speed up tracker? There is no manpage for
tracker so I don't know much about it. Gnome Help has nothing about
Tracker.