Is there an equivalent of Spotlight (on Mac) for FreeBSD?

I think it depends what desktop environment you are using. I believe in GNOME, you can search for applications within the "Activities" menu. I'm not sure about a file indexing service though.
 
The closest thing I can recall that is well integrated into a GTK environment but Gnome3/4 is Synapse. Unfortunately I believe that now it is only on maintenance mode and no longer active, but it is still quite good although it doesn't replicate all the functionalities that Spotight has.
 
I've heard good things about rofi; which has a similar user experience when launched. You can use it with any DE or WM. I don't think rofi indexes all metadata from packages installed on FreeBSD, so your variety of searchable items may be narrow. Spotlight depends on a metadata server that crawls all sorts of file attributes on the system; allowing you to do a bunch of weird stuff with it.
 
Not equivalent, but I use Recoll.

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tuxador said:
Krunner for plasma5 is the thing.
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It certainly is, however some use cases exclude Baloo.

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Is Baloo indexing useful for Krunner?

I would like to disable Baloo because it eat a lot of CPU. But I love to search file through Krunner. If I disable Baloo, does Krunner will be...
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256269 – sysutils/kf5-baloo: Opens 19+k files and causes 'Too many open files' error

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Baloo aside,

273669 – x11/kde5: kde5 opens too many files and freezes the system (with disabled Baloo) - KDE is unusable when the home directory has a lot of files

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After a new FreeBSD/KDE installation the first thing I do is disable baloo. If I don't baloo leaves core dumps all over the system.
If I just turn baloo off it's all good and KDE works just fine.
 
For me there is no loss of search functionality.


meaw@hpaio:/usr/home/meaw$ balooctl status
Baloo is currently disabled. To enable, please run balooctl enable

If I open a dolphin window and search for a file from there it works just fine.

I'm not an expert with it but baloo is disabled and search works. (Maybe slower than with baloo?? dont know)
 
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