How to search files and FOLDERS/directories in OpenSuSE 11.1

[Z3RKLOM]

This seems like a stupid question but every distribution ive used thus far has had a separate search application to find files and folders, OpenSuSE 11.1 appearently has none.

Theres the option to search for "files" in the menu where "search for files and folders" should be and it does only that- FILES, it will not display folders, but somehow shows one folder i myself created, it won't show any system-wide (/usr/lib etc forget about it!) and it takes forever...

as root it will only search for infinity without ever displaying ANY results because it is forever searching..

There must be a way to search for folders too, or to search as root without being sucked through a black hole

So how can i simply search for files AND FOLDERS using OpenSuSE 11.1 / gnome

Even a command prompt method would suffice for the time being

[D-cat]

If you installed the package "locate", you'll be able to search an indexed list of all files on your computer to find where they are.

locate [file]

The slow method is "find"...

find / | grep [file]

Note: these commands are executed in a Terminal.