For some unknown reason, my Unity dash doesn't show recent applications. I am guessing it could be related to the fact that I have a newer version of zeitgeist than the standard repo provides (I use a ppa).
That is the only unusual detail I can think of. What can I do to get back recent applications in the dash?
There was a similar problem reported here
The solution was to reinstall unity-lens-applications and unity-lens-files packages and the Dash magically works.
Both these packages were formely named unity-place-applications and unity-place-files
We are looking into it. Probably some packaging issue.
Recent Applications with Unity Dash. Since recently used applications does indeed use Zeitgeist, so I guess this needs to be investigated. If this issue is too much troubling, then you can try to downgrade the zeitgeist version by opening in Synaptic and do a "Force version" to the version which comes with Ubuntu. By the time I can find a solution
Jun 29, 2011 at 14:37
In my case none of the solutions above worked.
The solution I found to work:
sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
Then close your session and login again, and dash worked again.
for recent apps to show in dash in ubuntu 16.04 turning on record file and application usage (in security & privacy) worked for me
