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In Ubuntu 18.04, I do this:

  • Super-E to open Nautilus
  • Click on Home
  • Type a letter of a desired directory, e.g. d if I want to go to Documents.
  • I then try to mouse-click on Documents. But at this point, Nautilus is jammed for three minutes until eventually I get a popup notification that "Search for d is ready."

My user home has only 52 directories and 22 other files.

I think that the entire subtree of my user-home is being searched for that letter d. How do I avoid that? I do wish I could use that d keypress to go to the right part of the directory listing.

Joshua Fox
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    I guess this is not possible anymore https://askubuntu.com/questions/967022/how-do-i-disable-search-as-you-type-text-in-ubuntu-17-10-and-later – ob2 Aug 01 '18 at 11:40
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    So you hit the first letter in the directory name, Nautilus finds it, but won't let you exit the search ? Try hitting Esc once Nautilus shows the directory, see if it let's you press Enter afterwards – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 01 '18 at 13:41
  • I tried that. It does not make a difference. I do this. (1) Type Superkey+E (to open Nautilus) (2) Click Home (3) Type d (4) Esc (5) Mouse-click on Documents, or else Type Enter (though actually, the first 'd' directory is not Documents).

    Anyway, Nautilus is frozen at stage 3

     – Joshua Fox Aug 02 '18 at 06:09
  • Thank you. That link led me to this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1164016 – Joshua Fox Aug 14 '18 at 09:27
  • Unfortuantely, adding the repo as recommended there, I get "gpg: unknown option 'show-only' ; gpg: invalid import options ; Got '0' fingerprints, expected only one ; Failed to add key. – Joshua Fox Aug 14 '18 at 09:30

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