Being independent of the desktop type has its drawbacks: Recoll desktop integration is minimal. However there are a few tools available:
Users of recent Ubuntu-derived distributions, or any other Gnome desktop systems (e.g. Fedora) can install the Recoll GSSP (Gnome Shell Search Provider).
For KDE users, there is a
KIO workermodule, which was described in a previous section, and aKrunner plugin. Both are usually installed with the main Recoll package.Hotkeying recoll: it is surprisingly convenient to be able to show or hide the Recoll GUI with a single keystroke. Recoll comes with a small Python script, based on the libwnck window manager interface library, which will allow you to do just this. The detailed instructions are on this wiki page.
