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Is there any Alternative/Indicator to Dash search for searching and opening applications & files?

How to install it in Ubuntu 14.04?

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Indicator-Synapse is spotlight-like search bar.

You can install by following command in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse

After installation logout and login back to see indicator in panel: screen

You can use Alt+F10 and use arrow keys to move to indicator-synapse.


If you want classical navigation type indicator then install Classic Menu Indicator:

sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator

classical

Hope this helps.

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  • Is this search also working for directories or just for applications?
    – empedokles
    Aug 24, 2014 at 16:37
  • Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension E: Unable to locate package indicator-synapse Mar 17, 2017 at 13:06
  • i am getting the above error when installing indicator-synapse Mar 17, 2017 at 13:07
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    @PankajGautam Visit instructions for Unable to locate package error.
    – Pandya
    Mar 17, 2017 at 13:16

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