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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 4.20.0 released (2024/12/25 18:07)

  catfish 4.20.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.20/catfish-4.20.0.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.20/catfish-4.20.0.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.20/catfish-4.20.0.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 4.20.0 ======================== - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - Hotkeys to transfer focus - Add Close/Persist after select CLI flags - Improve window titles - ci: Update references for autotools/meson split - Honor close-after-select in all cases - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - Adapt .gitlab-ci.yml - build: Remove setuptools build - build: Port to meson - Add file to help transifex - build: Rewrite setup.py - Build correct URIs for filenames (Fixes #104) - settings: Honor XDG_CONFIG_HOME (Fixes #102) - Update tree view stats on right click (Fixes #101) - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

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