The Unity Dash grants quick access to applications, files and folders, and shortcuts. For the command-line shell, use [tag:dash-shell]
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about:blank opens in Chromium when I type into the dash
Here's a rather odd problem I'm having. Whenever I open the dash and type into it, Chromium opens up and opens an "about:blank" tab for just about every letter I write into the dash. Why is it doing ...
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Winetricks not in dash or menu - Ubuntu 13.04
I installed new Ubuntu 13.04 and Wine 1.5.29 trough ppa. But I noticed that on older Ubuntu versions, after installation of wine and winetricks (they install together now), there is a "Winetricks" ...
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What happened to no indexing certain directories?
Ubuntu 13.04 no longer has an option to keep certain folders from being indexed. Why was this removed and how do you reinstate it?
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The dash doesn't agree with software center
Software center shows an application installed.
When I go to the dash and search for that application to open it, it shows up as available for download (not installed).
How do I get the dash and ...
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Dash, only full mode [duplicate]
Dash,Only full mode, in Asus EeePC 1005HA
When I click in the Dash, the 3 button on the left, the Dash and remains on the screen
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How do I switch the dash from full screen mode in Eee PC?
On an Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook, I can't switch the Dash from the full screen window mode.
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Amazon results not showing in dash
I really like Amazon search showing up on Dash. I've made a clean install of 13.04 and initially I would get results from Amazon and Ubuntu Music Store.
For instance, searching for 'Rush Presto' ...
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How can I make Dash search unopened files in Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
One of the things that I can't seem to work out is how to do a full search of my documents in Ubuntu 13.04. The way it is now is that the search results from the dash seem quite random.
Ideally, I ...
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Formating a USB stick with ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
I know there's a few relevant questions answered but when I try to format it through disk utility the only answer I get is:
"Error synchrinizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object ...
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how do I activate the dash to display feeds from my online accounts in the social media lense?
Just upgraded to 13.04. I was hoping that the dash would replace gwibber, but I cannot even see my facebook or twitter accounts in the social media lense. All my online accounts are there, but ...
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Why does the Launcher & Dash and Main toolbar disappears!
My question is regarding to the dash and launcher and toolbar top bar with name and time. My problem that I have noticed at least three times this month. My Dash and Laucher and toolbar disappear for ...
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Can Ubuntu's 12.04 dash home buttom look squared like the one in Ubuntu 13.04?
I wish I could make my Ubuntu's 12.04 dash home buttom look squared, just like it's in Ubuntu 13.04. Can I do it somehow?
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Flickering while searching [closed]
I just installed 13.04 and while searching something in the dash, i noticed that the background, (actually the top left part of the background) was flickering. is this intentional? and how can you ...
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Launcher and Dash Hide after update Video Card
I currently have Ubuntu 13.04 installed.
And then I installed nVidia Drivers from the Additional Drivers window.
But after installing, the Launcher and dash has gone..
Then I deleted the nvidia ...
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13.04 Unity - dash loses keyboard focus while typing
I recently updated to 13.04. About half the times when I open Unity dash (super / windows key) and start typing the input field loses focus after a couple of keystrokes. I'll then have to set the ...
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Eclipse doesn't open in Dash Ubuntu 12.04
I installed Eclipse following these instructions: How to install Eclipse?
Now when I go to Dash Home and type Eclipse. there is a white file but clicking on it doesn't do anything.
Then I opened ...
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How come the dash seems to hesitate, and sometimes doesn't come up at all?
Everytime I move my mouse to the left (dash is set to revel itself) it either hesitates before it comes out, and sometimes it fails to come up at all... Also dash is set to very high sensitivity but ...
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How to get Google Drive (Docs) search to work in Unity Dash?
How to get Google Drive (Docs) search to work in Unity Dash?
I've added my Google account in the Online Accounts System Settings panel.
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 with the following packages installed:
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Thunderbird Missing from Messaging menu & Dash
I no longer need this issue solved as I have replaced Ubuntu with a different OS (nothing wrong with Ubuntu, just fancied a change). I reinstalled Ubuntu into a virtual machine and thunderbird began ...
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Clicking the Dash Home causes computer to freeze up?
Literally every time I use the Dash Home it causes my computer to freeze up and become useless, until I restart it. It's a shame because I can't really look through my apps or anything using it, and ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 suffers graphics corruption?
Ubuntu's dash turns green when I press the Super key after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. I'm not sure what causes the problem, and I haven't found any similar problems.
I have ...
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Disable Dash reveal animation
How can I disable Dash reveal animation. When I try to open Dash it takes up to 2 seconds to open it, that's slow for me. I noticed it uses fade out animation while opening so I think when I disable ...
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Dash transparency doesn't look right
Well, I don't know what words to express this problem but here's the picture..
as you can see, there is a problem with the background opacity of unity...
how to solve this?? I'm using the april 21 ...
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How do you change the Dash icon in 13.04? [duplicate]
Now I ask this and I consider it distinct in that the related question How to change the Dash icon in the Unity Launcher? is about old ubuntu versions like 11.10 this one is specifically for 13.04.
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How to make my desktop file appear as an application only?
I wrote a desktop file - /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=gksudo -k -u root /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Icon=eclipse
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Buggy dash in Ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
I installed Ubuntu 13.04, but when i open the dash, the dash is buggy, the transparency and blur does't work well. I uploaded a video to show you what i mean.
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Ubuntu 13.04 lenses missing
This is what my dash currently looks like!
I have no clue why the other lenses are not being shown.
$ sudo apt-get install unity-lens-friends unity-lens-files unity-lens-help unity-lens-movie ...
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How to List all available apps on my machine
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, with the unity dash. I would like to List all available apps on my machine. Start menu style in other words.
Dash is hard for me to use unless I know the name of what I am ...
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Dash background/blur problem
I have a problem with the dash's background in Raring, instead of blur it shows a greenish pattern. This happens with both active and static blur (installed Unity Tweak Tool to try these). No blur ...
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How do I open the dash when a fullscreen application has the focus? (12.10 13.04)
When I press the "windows" key the dash normally opens. When I press it when a fullscreen window has the focus, it doesn't seem to do anything. How do I open the dash when a fullscreen window has the ...
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Dash wont change color with background and desktop is white no matter what I change it to
How do I fix this? Please note I am using quantal. I performed the change shown here.
Edit: I upgraded to raring and the problem went away. A little while later I logged off and logged back on. ...
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Really weird hidden dash bug involving OpenJDK and Minecraft [closed]
I'm pretty sure my problem is unique.
I'm using OpenJDK 7 to play Minecraft, in order to avoid wrangling with Wine. Recently, this setup has started to give me problems.
I am getting "System program ...
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How to use ubuntu dash as online search engine?
I want to know if online google search engine searches can be done from within ubuntu dash.
This is like a mini search engine within the ubuntu launcher.
If this is possible,how to do it?
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why is my ubuntu 12.10 slow since the last update?
Two days ago I updated my Ubuntu. Since then it opens dash very slow, much slower than before update. Also when I click on pretty much anything, like software update, it looks like nothing is going ...
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remmina remote desktop client not starting?
When you click the app icon in the dash search, it does not pop up after waiting a few seconds for the applications to open. this one doesn't even do that. It did work fine before, but now it doesn't.
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Remove Deleted wine Shortcuts from the dash [duplicate]
My dashe / unity menu is full with wine shortcuts that are removed from the system even more I deleted .wine prefix folder. but sadly shortcuts are there and they look like this
so is there a way ...
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Gnome 3 Favourite bar missing
I am using ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.From last few days I have noticed a change in my gnome is clicking on activities button doesn't shoes favourite bar/dash (screenshot attached). I have tried a lot ...
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How to make dash search in all directories? [duplicate]
I have mounted partition and when I search through dash for files, it doesn't look into that partition. I've tried to change the scope of the searching lens "Files & folders", but I can't find ...
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How can I enable/disable Dash online results programmatically?
How can I change this setting from a Bash script?
My plan is to enable it only on certain network connections.
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What file or folder contains the contents for the Dash?
I have deinstalled a package (epiphany) which showed up thrice in the dash. Now, one of the application-icons is gone, yet two remain.
I want to know where to start looking into this problem: how ...
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Autocomplete on Partial Matches in the Middle of a filename in Terminal (dash/bash)
I have a bunch of directories:
20130118-Cars_Directory
20130118-Bikes_Directory
20130218-Planes_Directory
20130228-Scooters_Directory
Is there any way to change directories in the manner of typing ...
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Why my dash became blue? [closed]
Before I re-installed Ubuntu, my Unity Dash had turned blue. what made it turn blue and how do I make it look like that again?
EDIT: According to the comments about being too specific and since I got ...
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How do you make a program that doesn't need to be installed searchable in the unity dash. (ubuntu 12.10)
I've come across this a few times, but I will use a specific example. When I downloaded the ADT bundle from Google it came with programs that just ran without needing to be installed, i.e. I can run ...
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dash board problem [duplicate]
Please see the image here
I know this is a ridiculous question but T got problem with my dash board, it was like this when I restart my computer to install drive
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Transparency bug in the dash
I'm using ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop acer aspire 5742zg with an optimus nvdia card (bumblebee is running perfectly) and I have a problem with the transparency in the dash. When I open the dash all the ...
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Dual desktop problem with dash not showing
I am using Toshiba laptop,Ubuntu 12.04.
Trying to install Mac theme via instructions on link
When I restart,I see two desktop bar in upper top,see photo:-dual desktop problem,all folders & files ...
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themes and sidebar
I using delorean dark but some of the loaded apps don't show up on the sidebar when opened. How can I get them to show up for easy access instead of minimizing everything to find them? This only ...
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How to hide unity dash “More suggestions” (NOT unity-lens-shopping)
After removing "unity-lens-shopping" remain some annoying tips from the Software Center.
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Dash has become slow and unresponsive
I installed Quantal on my old box (Intel Pentium E2180, 1 GB RAM). Dash was working fine and was very responsive. I then installed unity-scope-audacious package from the repositories.
Dash became ...
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How to solve visual problems with the dash home?
Every time I try to use Dash Home I get this glitchy visual fireworks display with random colors and text missing. This is the screen-shoot:
Is this in relation to how my graphics driver is ...
