Belajar Agar Berkembang: Oktober 2025

Jumat, 31 Oktober 2025

I Found Everything Search Engine Alternative for Linux Users

A desktop-wide search application can be the key to speeding up your workflow by a significant amount, as anything you might look for will almost be at your fingertips at any given moment.

Today, we'll be looking at a GUI desktop application that does exactly that.

FSearch: Fast, Feature-rich GUI Search App

FSearch is a fast file search application, inspired by Everything Search Engine on Windows.

It works in an efficient way without slowing down your system, giving you results as you type the keywords in. The way it does this is by indexing the files from the directories in advance, updating them at a fixed interval, and storing that information to search through whenever the application is used.

It is written in C and based on GTK3, which is ideal for GNOME users but might not look as good on Qt based desktop environments like KDE. Let's look at some of the features this utility offers.

Index Inclusion/Exclusion

The first thing that you need to do after installation and the most crucial aspect of all is to specify to the utility what are the directories that you want it to search for anything in. Besides the inclusion category, you can also specify what directories you want excluded from the search. Another extremely helpful option is to exclude the hidden files from being searched which can be the case if you only want to search the files as you see them on your file explorer.

Besides that, you can also configure how often the database needs to be refreshed and updated. This will depend on how often the relevant files on your system change, and hence should be your own choice.

Wildcard and RegEx Support

The search input supports the wildcard mode by default, which are often used for specifications on the command line. For example, if I want to search for all files that contain "Black" in the name, I can give the input as such:

Here, "*" essentially means everything. So any files with anything at all before and after the word "Black" will be listed. There are many more wildcards like this such as "?" for one missing character, and "[ ]" specifying ranges. You can read more about them here.

The other option is to specify the search results by the RegEx formatting, which is a different style in itself. It can be activated using Ctrl+R, and switched by the same.

Fast Sort

You can quickly sort out the results based on name, path, size or last modification date right from the interface, as the results are shown with these details present. All it takes is one click on the right detail header (or two clicks if you want them in a descending instead of an ascending order).

Filetype Filter

The searched files can be of different categories defined in the utility itself, which are defined by the extensions of the files that the results yield. There is a button on the right of the search bar where the search results category can be specified, the default being "All". The categories are:

All
Files
Folders
Applications (such as .desktop)
Archives (such as .7z, .gzip, .bz)
Audio (such as .mp3, .aac, .flac)
Documents (such as .doc, .csv, .html)
Pictures (such as .png, .jpg, .webp)
Videos (such as .mp4, .mkv, .avi)

The excellent feature is that these categories and their list of extensions are modifiable. You can add or change any of the options if it doesn't fit your needs well.

Search in Specific Path

Another interestingly important search option is to also search in the path of the filenames. This becomes relevant when you remember the approximate location of the file or part of the path or something as such. It seems like a minor detail but can be a real savior when the appropriate time arises. An example of it can be this:

This mode can be activated using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+U.

Other Features

There are other minor features that help in the customization, such as toggling the case sensitivity of the search terms (which can also be done with the Ctrl+I keyboard shortcut), single-clicking to open files, pressing Esc to exit, remembering window size on closing, etc.

Installing FSearch on Linux

FSearch is available on various distributions in multiple different ways. First, to cover the distro-independent option, Flatpak. FSearch exists on Flathub and can be installed with a simple search on any distribution where Flathub is enabled internally in the app store such as Fedora. If not from the store, you can find the .flatpakref file here and (considering it is downloaded in the Downloads folder) install it with:

sudo flatpak install io.github.cboxdoerfer.FSearch.flatpakref

On Ubuntu based distributions, there are two options, a stable release and a daily one. To add the repository the stable version, enter this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-stable

Whereas for the daily release:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-daily

In either case, then enter the following commands after to install the application:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install fsearch

On Arch-based distributions, use the following command:

sudo pacman -S fsearch

On Fedora, the installation can be done by entering:

dnf copr enable cboxdoerfer/fsearch
dnf install fsearch

If none of these apply, you can always install from source or find instructions on the official website.

Final Thoughts

FSearch does what it claims to do without exceptions and hurdles. It is very fast, not very taxing on the hardware, has very sensible configuration options, and looks pretty good while doing its job. A huge recommendation from my side would be to add a keyboard shortcut to open FSearch (the process will depend on your distribution), something very accessible like Shift+S perhaps to easily open the utility and use it immediately.

I know that for many Linux users, nothing replaces the find command clubbed with xargs and exec but still, not all desktop Linux users are command line ninjas. That's why desktop search apps like FSearch, ANGRYsearch and SearchMonkey exist. Nautilus' built-in file search works well, too.

Please let us know in the comments if this is an application you'd like to use, or if you have any other preferences. Cheers!

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Kamis, 30 Oktober 2025

Here's How You Can Customize Linux Desktop for Halloween [Dot Files Included]

Halloween is here. Some people carve pumpkins, I crafted a special set up for my Arch Linux 🎃

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In this tutorial, I'll share with you all the steps I took to give a Halloween-inspired dark, spooky makeover with Hyprland. Since it is Hyprland, you can relatively easily replicate the setup by getting the dot files from our GitHub repository.

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This specific setup was done with Hyprland window compositor on top of Arch Linux. If you are not using Hyprland and still want to try it, I advise installing Arch Linux in a virtual machine.

If videos are your thing, you can watch all the steps in action in this video on our YouTube channel.

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Step 1: Install Hyprland and necessary packages

First, install all the essential Hyprland packages to get the system up and running:

sudo pacman -S hyprland xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland hyprpolkitagent kitty

The above will install Hyprland and necessary packages. Now, install other utility packages.

sudo pacman -S hyprpaper hyprpicker hyprlock waybar wofi dunst fastfetch bat eza starship nautilus

What do these packages do? Well, here are some info:

hyprpaper: Hyprland Wallpaper utility
hyprpicker: Color picker
hyprlock: Lock screen utility
waybar: Waybar is a Wayland panel
wofi: Rofi launcher alternative, but for Wayland. Rofi can be used. In fact, we have some preset config for Rofi in our GitHub repository. But Wofi was selected for this video.
dunst: Notification daemon.
fastfetch: fastfetch is a system information display utility.
bat: Modern alternative for cat command.
eza: Modern ls command alternative
starship: Starship is a prompt customization tool.
nautilus: Nautilus is the file manager from GNOME.

Step 2: Install and enable display manager

You need a display manager to login to the system. We use SDDM display manager. GDM also works fine with Hyprland.

sudo pacman -S sddm

Once SDDM package is installed, enable the display manager on boot time.

sudo systemctl enable sddm.service

Now, reboot the system. When login prompt appears, login to the system.

Step 3: Install other utility packages

Once essential Hyprland packages are installed and you are logged in, open a terminal in Hyprland using Super + Q. Now install Firefox browser using:

sudo pacman -S firefox

It's time to install theme packages. Hyprland is not a desktop environment in the sense of what GNOME or KDE is. Yet you may still use some apps developed for GNOME (GTK apps) or Qt apps.

To theme, you need to install theme managers for respective system:

nwg-look: To apply theme to GTK apps.
qt5ct: To apply theme to Qt5 apps.

Install these packages using the command:

sudo pacman -S qt5ct nwg-look

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If you are using a minimal installation of Arch Linux, you may need to install an editor like nano to edit file in terminal.

Step 4: Change the monitor settings

In most cases, Hyprland should recognize the monitor and load accordingly. But in case you are running it in a VM, it will not set the display size properly.

Even though we give full configuration at a later stage, if you want to fix the monitor, use the command:

monitor=<Monitor-name>,1920x1080,auto,auto

It is important to get the name of the monitor. Use this command:

hyprctl monitors

Remember the name of your monitor.

Step 5: Download our custom Hyprland dot files

Go to It's FOSS GitHub page and download the text-script-files repository.

Download Config Files

You can also clone the repo, if you want using the command:

git clone https://github.com/itsfoss/text-script-files.git

But the above needs git installed.

If you have downloaded the zip file, extract the archive file. Inside that, you will find a directory config/halloween-hyprland. This is what we need in this article.

Step 6: Copy wallpaper to directory

Copy the images in the wallpapers folder to a directory called ~/Pictures/Wallpapers. Create it if it does not exist, of course.

mkdir -p ~/Pictures/Wallpapers

Step 7: Download GTK theme, icons and fonts

Download the Everforest GTK theme dark borderless macOS buttons.

Download Everforest GTK Theme

Download Dominus Funeral icon theme dark style.

Download Icon theme

Download Dominus Funeral Icon theme

Download the "Creepster" font from Google Fonts website.

Download Creepster font

Next, create ~/.themes, ~/.icons, and ~/.fonts respectively:

mkdir -p ~/.themes ~/.icons ~/.fonts

And we need to paste theme, icon, and font files in their respective locations:

Extract the "Creepster" font file and place it at ~/.fonts.
Extract the theme file and paste it at ~/.themes.
Extract the icon file and paste it at ~/.icons

Paste thems, icons, and fonts

Step 8: Install other nerd fonts

Install Nerd fonts like:

Firacode Mono Nerd Font and Caskaydia Nerd font: Download from Nerd Fonts website.
Font awesome free desktop fonts
JetBrains Mono

If you are in Arch Linux, open a terminal and run the command:

sudo pacman -S ttf-firacode-nerd ttf-cascadia-code-nerd ttf-cascadia-mono-nerd woff2-font-awesome ttf-jetbrains-mono

Step 9: Verify Waybar and Hyprland config

Open the config.jsonc file on the downloaded directory and replace any occurrence of Virtual-1 with your monitor name.

For GNOME Box VM, it is Virtual-1. On my main system, I have two monitors connected. So, the names for my monitors are HDMI-A-1 and HDMI-A-2. Note the name of the monitors as we saw in Step 4:

hyprctl monitors

Now in the Waybar config, change the monitor name from Virtual-1 to the name of your monitor. Change all such occurrences.

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You can use any editor's find and replace feature. Find complete word Virtual-1 and replace it with your monitor name. If you are using nano, follow this guide to learn search and replace in nano editor.

Also, take a look at the panel item. If you see any item that is not needed in the panel, you can remove it from the [modules-<position>] part.

👉 Similarly, open the hyprland config in the downloaded directory. Change all reference to Virtual-1 to your monitor name. Similarly, replace monitor name in the hyprlock and hyprpaper config files.

Step 10: Copy and paste config files

Copy the following directories (in the downloaded GitHub files) and paste it to the ~/.config folder.

waybar: Waybar panel configs and styles.
wofi: Application launcher config
dunst: Customized dunst notification system.
starship.toml: Customized starship prompt.

If you are using a GUI file manager, copy all file/folders except hypr, wallpaper, and README.

Step 11: Replace Hyprland config

We did not copy hypr folder, because there is already a folder called hypr in every Hyprland system, which contains the minimal config.

I don't want to make it vanish. Instead, keep it as a backup.

cp ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf.bak

Now, exchange the content of the hyprland.conf in your system with the customized content. Luckily, the mv command has a convenient option called -exchange.

mv --exchange ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf /path/to/new/hyprland/config

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What the above command does is swap the contents of your default hyprland config with the one we created.

Step 12: Paste hyprlock and hyprpaper configs

Now, copy the hyprlock.conf and hyprpaper.conf file to ~/.config/hypr directory.

Step 13: Change themes

Open the NWG-Look app and set the GTK theme and font (Creepster font) for GTK apps:

Now, change icon theme:

Set icon theme for GTK apps

This app automatically adds necessary file links in the ~/.config/gtk-4.0. Thanks to this feature, you don't need to apply theme manually to the GTK4 apps.

Open the Qt5ct app and change the theme to darker.

Now, apply icon theme:

Qt icon theme

And change the normal font to "Creepster":

Step 14: Set Starship and aliases

First, paste some cool command aliases for the normal ls and cat command, using the modern alternatives eza and bat respectively. This is optional, of course.

Open ~/.bashrc in any editor and paste these lines at the bottom of this file:

alias ls='eza -lG --color always --icons'
alias la='eza -alG --color always --icons'
alias cat='bat --color always --theme="Dracula"'

Now, to enable Starship prompt, paste the starship eval line to the ~/.bashrc and source the config.

eval "$(starship init bash)"

source ~/.bashrc

Once all this is done, restart the system, and log back in to see the Halloween themed Hyprland.

Hyprland Halloween Makeover

Enjoy the spooky Hyprland set up. Happy Halloween 🎃

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Rabu, 29 Oktober 2025

FOSS Weekly #25.44: KDE Plasma 6.5 and Fedora 43 Released, Ghostty Terminal, Nextcloud Over Microsoft and Productivity App for Linux

It's Halloween so time to talk spooky stuff 👻

If solving Linux mysteries sounds thrilling, SadServers will be your new haunted playground. I came across this online platform that gives you real, misconfigured servers to fix and real-world inspired situations to deal with. This is perfect for sharpening your troubleshooting skills, specially in the Halloween season 🎃

💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition:

A new KDE Plasma and Fedora 43 release.
An Austrian ministry kicking out Microsoft.
Ubuntu 25.10 users encountering another bug.
App that gives you Pomodoro with task management.
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KDE Plasma 6.5 has been released with some neat upgrades.
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Ubuntu 25.10 briefly introduced a bug that broke the automatic upgrade system.
Fedora 43 is finally out after a brief delay. It packs in many useful refinements.

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Austria's BMWET has moved away from Microsoft in a well-organized migration to Nextcloud.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

Ghostty is loaded with functionality; join me as I explore some of them.

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Don't forget to utilize templates feature in LibreOffice and save some time.

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📽️ Videos I Am Creating for You

Giving a dark, menacing but fun Halloween makeover to my Arch Linux system.

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