Hi all - I’ve come across an annoying bug in Nautilus in the 9.5 AlmaLinux workstation installation and was hoping there’s a solution.
When I search for a file in Nautilus, I’m unable to sort the search results via Name, Modified, etc. Basically it just returns the list in a somewhat unsorted order, and there’s no way to change this. I tried this on a fresh install of Almalinux, using both the Boot/DVD ISOs and it happens across all of them.
This was reported as a bug almost 8 years ago (Bug #1698351 “Search in Nautilus Files does not allow sorting of...” : Bugs : nautilus package : Ubuntu) so I’m surprised to see it persisting into Gnome 40.1.
Are there any workarounds, and/or options for force upgrade to a newer version of gnome?
AlmaLinux, being compatible with RHEL, does not deviate from RHEL.
The Enterprise Linux principle is to provide “stable” platform. That is, rebases during lifetime of major version are not common.
Therefore, “switch to different gnome” is not offered/supported by AlmaLinux.
If somethig has been lurking in gnome so long, then what are chances that “newer version” is different?
A bug report to Red Hat that RHEL 9 (and/or CentOS Stream 9) has an issue would be the way to go. If they deem it important, they most likely backport the fix (if upstream has one) into the gnome that RHEL 9 has. AlmaLinux will then follow suit.
Personally, I don’t use Nautilus. I do use grep -r and find for searches.
Thanks - mostly I was just wondering if anyone had found a workaround or tweak for this. It’s been fixed in Debian 12 (gnome v. 43) so somewhere along the way someone patched it.
AlmaLinux 10 beta seems to have “nautilus-46.2”.