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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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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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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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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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Dash (superkey) doesnt find any software and my software-center doesn't start
Can anybody help me? I have only access to software that is already shown in the starter..
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dash search results not showing my files
I am using the dash search to find files(mostly video files) but its only displaying recently played files.My files are in a different partition,and yes I have mounted those drives.How do I get the ...
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Unity dash has incorrect search results
After messing around with drivers for a bit, my Unity plugin from Compiz became disabled and I had to turn it back on. After that happened, my dash started giving me weird responses to my searches.
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How to search results online using unity dash? [duplicate]
I just want to know if you can search results on your preferred search engine(eg google) online using the dash
For example, searching for results on 'nature' in dash itself.If this is possible,how to ...
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How can I have a dash-like search on Xubuntu 12.10 / XFCE?
About 1.5 years ago, I tried out Ubuntu 11.04. I remember the dash being a rather helpful tool and I like the equivalent features on both Windows 7 (via the Start-button) and the Mac OS.
When I press ...
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How do I control when dash sends queries out on the internet for search lenses?
I like all the cool search lenses (like github and wikipedia), but I want to control if/when dash initiates an online search. Is there a way to limit that to only when I explicitly click on that ...
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Ubuntu dash not searching for files
i've just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and i've found that in the dash i can't look for files that i haven't opened yet, eg: I have a huge collection of pdf files and when i look for them on the dash i can ...
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Unity dash search
I have my personal folders to a different partition other than home, I had a series of symlinks in my home folder pointing to the folders on the other partition. This was causing multiple entries in ...
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Is there a shell-independent search tool like the Unity's Dash?
The only thing I will miss after moving to LXDE from Unity will be the Unity Dash. Its functionality, not the piss-poor performance that is. So here's my question. I know there is synapse but AFAIK it ...
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How do I stop Unity Dash truncating file names?
When I'm looking for articles with long names in Unity dash, I would like to have the full filename displayed instead of the current truncated view.
It's difficult to find a specific article by ...
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Problem with documents in Dash
I need help in this problem: I have changed my username (in all the config files like shadow, user, group, etc.) from osca to oscar.
Of course, I've changed the /home/osca directory to /home/oscar as ...
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How do I fix the Dash search not being able to find “additional drivers” nor “update”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dash search gives no result
I am a fairly new user of Ubuntu, and currently have two 12.04 installations, one of which seems to work ok but I have two problems. The ...
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Why can't dash search find a program by its full name?
For some applications, dash search comes up empty when searching by the application's full name. When typing the first couple of letters, it works. I wonder why...
MuseScore is a fine example. When I ...
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Dash search function displaying 'old' result
I'm no Ubuntu expert but I have had brief experience with Linux in the past and use it a bit at my university.
Today I had an issue with the Dash search function.
Specifically I downloaded a ...
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Google-search lens for unity [closed]
Is there any google search lens available for unity? If yes how do I install it?
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Cant ubuntu dash search files from every partition of my hard drive?
Lets say i have divided my hard disk in three partitions A B & c & i have chosen A to install Ubuntu, B to keep all my movies & all my songs in c folder. Now dash can find all my files ...
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Can I make the dash forget the previous search each time it opens? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop Unity from remembering search history?
I would like the search bar to be empty each time, just like how windows vista onwards lets you press Super, type a ...
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How to tell Dash to look in specific folders for Videos and Music
I have 2 folders filled with videos and songs that reside in a second hard drive. How can I tell dash to look in those folders every time I am looking for videos or songs.
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How to let Ubuntu index and find files on a different (Windows) drive when searching?
I love the Unity dash and lenses, but it only finds files that are under /home/mylogin
I would like it to find files that are under /media/MyWindowsDrive/Users/MyWinLogin
I tried creating a link to ...
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Dash in Unity-2D: how to tweak search?
For some reason after recent update Unity-2D dash doesn't show programs: I type "firefox" but it shows only files and folders as shown on the following image:
However dash finds Firefox after ...
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How do I find the folder/directory that a file is in (without using find)?
With the advent of the dash I can easily open a file which I do not know the location of.
How can I find out where the file resides in the directory structure without using "find" or "locate" or ...
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Dash search function doesn't work [duplicate]
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Every other time I reboot, I loose my applications lens in Unity!
It was working about an hour ago, now it doesn't give any results (even for "firefox" for example). ...
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Bookmark Searches with Dash?
Is there any way to configure Dash to search/access Firefox bookmarks, too? Seems like it would completely replace Gnome Do for most things if it could do this one thing. Gnome Do keeps causing errors ...
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How to use the Dash to search for files on other drives? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Zeitgeist does not index folders in NTFS partition
I am new to Ubuntu and it's promising. My question is how can I use it to search for files like I could in the Start ...
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Can I search tomboy notes with dash?
With gnome-do I could! It's very very useful for me, because tomboy is well integrated in Ubuntu. Why doesn't dash have anything about this?
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Why doesn't the search function in the Unity dash (11.04) return the same results in Nautilus search? [duplicate]
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Shouldn't unity's dash's “find files” find files that i haven't used yet?
When i use the Unity dash to search for files it doesn't return the ...
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Search for 'Games' in Dash to show Games from Applications Lens etc
When I search in the dash for 'Games', I only get two. If I search for 'Internet', I get only a few results compared to what I get when I right-click 'Applications' in the dock and choose ...
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How can I search for files in Unity?
I'm trying to use the dash instead of gnome-do, but I can't find files. "Find files" only returns "Top Results".
In gnome-do, I was able to set some often-used directories to index. For example, I ...
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Search results in Unity are always empty [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dash search gives no result
This is a bit similar to Unity File Lens Giving Useless or No Results but worse - I have a relatively clean install of 11.04, upgraded from ...
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Shouldn't Unity's dash's “find files” find files that I haven't used yet?
Searching for files in Dash brings up all the files I have used but none of those I haven't used yet. Shouldn't it show all files with the title I search for instead of just the ones I have already ...
