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I am pretty annoyed with this on Gnome that when you hit a key few times you end up typing a word in the search bar instead of jumping to the next search result.

Are there some other DE that do it like Windows? It is far more convenient way to find something quick imo. Why this is impossible on Ubuntu?

Here is the demonstration in total commander

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mevsme
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  • @N0rbert I have added a demonstration. Non of the answers actually work – mevsme Jun 28 '21 at 12:02
  • @mevsme In that case, can you specify the expected behaviour again? I don't see how your demonstration differs from the konqueror behaviour – Fynn Jun 28 '21 at 20:52

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I tried a few file managers in a VM and Konqueror seems to meet your needs in that particular instance. Install with sudo apt install konqueror. You might want to switch to e.g. Kubuntu for good though, because it needs all the KDE dependencies, and it looks out of place in GNOME, but since you were asking for a desktop environment anyway that might not be a problem for you.

I found this relevant piece of information in the docs

Select a file or folder by typing the first few letters of its name and the first matching item is selected. To clear the selection and cancel the keyboard search press Esc or wait longer than the timeout of 1 second.

(emphasis mine)

I did find, however, that you don't need to wait if it's unambiguous.

A (not so) fancy gif to show how it's working

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Caja file-manager (from caja package) provides this functionality - see screencast below:

Caja

Note: Esc is really not needed, you can wait for timeout to be reached.

Also you maybe interest in removing GNOMEs Hell and installing whole traditional and cool MATE Desktop environment instead. See this Q&A for details.

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  • How did you record your screen and key-presses? OBS? – mevsme Jun 25 '21 at 14:27
  • I see on screen-cast that the user are pressing down and escape - that's the default behavior actually. The behavior that I want is: you press b few times with delay, and selection goes like bin > boot > bin

    The point is that I don't want to move my hand to arrows and Esc key

     – mevsme Jun 25 '21 at 14:30
  • I press Esc to enter other letter. Please look more carefully. – N0rbert Jun 25 '21 at 15:44
  • That doesn't change the fact that it's not really a suitable answer. – Fynn Jun 27 '21 at 08:49
  • I searched for b. Then I want to search for d, e, h. To close search field I use Esc. @Fynn you can always record better GIF. The main issue is fixed. – N0rbert Jun 27 '21 at 08:53
  • The question implicitly states that he wants the following functionality "when you hit a key few times you [...] jump to the next search result". This is not what caja is doing, or am I wrong? – Fynn Jun 28 '21 at 08:34
  • @N0rbert sry, forgot the ping – Fynn Jun 28 '21 at 08:35
  • Oh I see ... yes, that ‘nautilus-typeahead‘ package seems to be a suitable answer – Fynn Jun 28 '21 at 08:38
  • @Fynn The recorded behavior in my answer is equal to old Nautilus 3.4.2. Really it is hard to find the version or application which reacts on multiple single letter press. Maybe twin-panes like Krusader or DoubleCommander will do the job, but both of them are not preinstalled. – N0rbert Jun 28 '21 at 09:10