Files not being indexed on Gnome TW

Hello,
I just installed TW with the Gnome DE on my laptop and I want to setup file indexing for some of my folders I made in the home directory. I added them under the search directory in the Gnome settings but they are not showing up in the search results.

I went to search online and found out that this is handled by a service called tracker, but I can’t find it installed anywhere on my system. Not under systemctl list-unit-files, not even the tracker3 / tracker command is found.

Does anyone have any guidance on how to proceed with file indexing?

In openSUSE with KDE, file indexing is handled by the “Baloo” system.

I’m confident that’s what is used in GNOME too.

bal

Thanks for the reply, I think I found the command that handles the indexing here. It’s called localsearch.

When executing localsearch daemon -w I can see some entries being generated on the new paths I added in the settings but when opening the gnome shell and searching for those paths, it doesn’t seem like they are being forwarded to Gnome.

Baloo is specifically a plasma thing. Always has been.

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