I kind of figured this out. In addition to Tracker, you need Gnome Documents and gnome-shell-extensions installed. Launch Gnome Documents, and it will index your files. Now you will be able to search by content from Gnome Documents and Gnome Shell, but still not from Nautilus. Perhaps this is because Ubuntu installs an older version of Nautilus (3.26).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767817 Title: Full text search does not work Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Background: I have installed Tracker. It has finished indexing. I can also use Tracker's command line interface to search by content. 1. Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 2. nautilus: Installed: 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3. I expect to be able to search files by content from Nautilus, because this feature worked in 17.10. 4. I get no results from full text search unless the search matches file names. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1767817/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
