is there a synapse-like launcher native to xfce?

[geoffmen]

I've been using synapse on gnome 2, cinnamon and mate. I wonder if I should be using it on xfce since zeitgeist isn't installed by default (running xubuntu 13.10). Does XFCE use another file indexer? I saw catfish does searches is it an indexer? does it have a launcher?

[buzzingrobot]

XFCE uses the "Application Finder" (http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start)

I suspect Synapse works n XFCE. You might check the dependencies list, if that sort of thing concerns you.

I *think* Catfish is a frontend to the locate tool, which depends on a rudimentary indexing of file and directory names.

If you are interested in complete indexing of everything in your filesystem and searching that index, look at the "recoll" app.

[ajgreeny]

Recoll used here on Xubuntu 12.04 and I find it extremely good. You can search for different types of file as well as the file content, the latter of which can occasionally be a lifesaver if you can't remember what you called a file.

[vasa1]

I've been using synapse on gnome 2, cinnamon and mate. I wonder if I should be using it on xfce since zeitgeist isn't installed by default (running xubuntu 13.10). Does XFCE use another file indexer? I saw catfish does searches is it an indexer? does it have a launcher?
For some reason I thought Xubuntu had zeitgeist! Good to know it doesn't.

[Frogs Hair]

Zietgiest is a recommended dependency for Synapse which I use in the XFCE session . I use Ubuntu and not Xubuntu though.