I suppose this is still a bug???
or is it just me and my ‘domestic blindness’?
first do this and then search
KDE uses “Alt + .” or “F8” to show Hidden files in Dolphin - shortcuts which many users likely already use. As mentioned above, this shortcut can be freely changed.
Apparently this is not fixed yet, even on 4.11RC1.
No. Turning on “Show hidden files” has NO effect on the search results…
oops.my response for that was based on Nautilus . Obviously things work differently in each desktop environment