GNOME Shell has a powerful search feature integrated, where you can just hit "super", then start typing what you need. Let's take a look at what is possible by default, and what you can add through extensions ! GNOME Shell Search To search with GNOME shell, just click the "Activities" button, or hit "super" and start typing ! By default, GNOME Shell will search through your contacts, our documents, your files, your GNOME boxes virtual machines, your calendar events, your notes, your saved passwords and keys, your photos. It will also search through available software, your terminal history, and even your web search history. You can configure all that through the system settings, by enabling or disabling each search provider. But this list can be extended with more search tools, through extensions. Extensions are not enabled by default on GNOME, so you'll have to activate them. I already covered this in a previous video, so take a look at the little bubble up top to see how to do that. Once extensions support is enabled, you can add some more search tools ! YouTUBE search If you're watching this, chances are you're using YouTUBE quite a bit. You can enable the "Youtube search provider" extension to directly search through Youtube videos in the shell, and open them in your default browser. This extensions has not yet been updated for GNOME Shell 3.30, and it sometimes gave me an error, but most of the time, it worked perfectly. Link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1457/youtube-search-provider/ Web search dialog YOu can already search through web pages with the default shell: type what you want, and select "search the web for...". This, however, forces you to click on the right item. If you want to have a quick shortcut to search the web, the "Web search dialog" extension will do the job perfectly. Once installed, just enter "control + space" and type what you want ! You can tweak it as well, by changing the default saerch engine, the keyboard shortcut, or the use of suggestions. Link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/549/web-search-dialog/ Switcher Do you have a lot of windows open most of the time ? With Switcher, you can search through your open windows to get to them. Just hit Super + W, and type the name of the app you're trying to get to. Once you hit enter, the corresponding window will be brought to the forefront. You can change the hotkey, of course, as well as the size of the pop-up. You can even tell it to automatically activate the window you're looking for if there is only one that matches your search ! This extension also come with a launcher to quiclky start applications, you can activate by pressing SUper +X, but it is kinda redundant with the standard GNOME Shell features. Link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/973/switcher/ Super + tab launcher Not quite a search provider, but a nice helping tool to get quicly to what you're looking for, this extension allows you to access your favorite apps (the ones that are in your dock), from the SUper + Tab or ALT + Tab shortcut. So, not only can you switch open windows quickly, but you can also open apps that you usually have open but are not at the moment ! Link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1133/supertab-launcher/ Follow me on Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP ~-~~-~~~-~~-~ Also Watch my Experience with Manjaro Budgie on a Full AMD Linux Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZdj4Q08fBg ~-~~-~~~-~~-~