nautilus
The Nautilus search box (I don't know if there is a name for it), it shows up whenever I start to type when I'm on the desktop (All applications are closed).
Is it normal feature?
Is it a problem or a bug?
Is it possible to remove it from the desktop only?
I've got it working again, by purging Nautilus...
I first made a backup of my plugins and extensions data ...
Nautilus Notes and other metadata are in '~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata'
'nautilus-scripts-manager' data is in '~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts' ... etc.
Then I rebooted, and the search feature is now working.
Nautilus Notes was still working, so I then reinstalled my plugins,
and everyghing is working fine again.
There may have been no need to uninstall my plugin, but as it turned out, it doesn't matter; eaither way works... (I've been without this feature for 3 months... Today was the day !
Sounds like a job for gnome-search-tool.
It can perform partial matches on the file name and search on more options:
It can also:
You can define a a location to search. In my example I have two .gpl files in that directory but only one containing the word Server.
Best Answer
I would think this is expected behavior when using the 'Have file manager handle the desktop' option. If it's showing up with that option disabled then that could be a bug.
I believe that option is now default enabled for both unity* & gnome-shell - I'm assuming you're using 11.10, you haven't specified what you're on.