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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Can only see icons that in the desktop. no global menu, no dash! [duplicate]
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Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I just upgraded my 12.04 system to 12.10, but only seem to be able to access the applications for which i had shortcuts ...
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Manually set up icons in Unity Dash to big [duplicate]
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How can you resize the icons in the Unity Dash?
When i manually set up icons from installed apps, then the icons are to big.
Please help me ore give a tip, how i get the ...
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What happened to my Unity Application?
Something is wrong when I try to search some applications in the dash. I don't know how to describe it, but you can see it in the attached pictures:
I'm using unity 12.04 LTS, with Faenza icons, ...
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Multiple languages in HUD and dash
Is it possible to have multi-language support for HUD and dash?
For example, on the Dash I would like to be able to search for "files" (English) and "dateien" (German) or on the HUD search for "open" ...
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How to prevent files from being shown in Unity dash?
I don't want file names to be completed in my unity dash, for privacy and security reasons.
Is there a way to disable files from being shown in the dash?
Note that I am able to hide recently used ...
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Dash music lens doesn't play music files
After installing 12.10 music lens in Dash worked not for a long time.
After a little while buttons "Open in directory" and "Play" (or whatever there was) just dissapeared.
The only thing I can notice ...
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How can I change the Software Centre prices to GBP?
The pricing in the Software Centre and in the Dash is in USD. I don't live in the USA so this is not relevent to me. Is it possible to change to GBP or even EUR?
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Ubuntu 12.10 the dash and panel are black
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 on VMware machine.
12.04 was just fine, but with 12.10 I am facing several problems.
Missing amd microcode. Solution is: sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode
but why it is ...
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dash home crashes [closed]
i'm on ubuntu 12.10 at last but ive a big problem. everything works correctly while setup process, installation and then while logging in but then when i have my desktop on screen i can't use the dash ...
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Recent apps, files and downloads will not change in unity 12.04 dash
At the beginning of my fresh installation it worked great, but now it doesn't change at all.
How do I "re-enable" it or "fix" it?
Thanks.
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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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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash transparency problem
I have just upgraded my Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and there is following problem.
When I press super button to show Unity Dash I get wrong background image behind the dash box. Especially I can see part ...
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How to launch apps installed from PPA?
I have installed a few apps from the Terminal by adding repositories and running commands but how do I access them? They aren't in the launcher and I can't see them in the Dash either.
I'm running ...
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Problem with dash in Ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10. When I open the dash, the computer stalls, then freezes. One in three times the screen gets full of stripes of different colours and I have to turn the computer off by ...
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Where does unity store app shortcuts and how to get rid of nonfunctional/duplicate shortcuts?
I have lots of duplicate icons (with different sizes), or even icons without title in my dash. I want to get rid of those, but don't know how. I have observed, that when logging in as a different ...
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The eclipse application icon is huge in Unity's dash
I have a problem with the manual installation of Eclipse Juno.
After unpacking the tarball to /opt, adding a symlink from /usr/local/bin and adding the following to a new file ...
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Unity Dash and top toolbar won't open after updating to 12.10
Today, I updated to Ubuntu 12.10. After re-starting, like the updater suggested, the toolbar on the top of the screen, and the dash won't load. I seem to be missing other features, as well, like ...
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New Dash features and Online accounts missing after 12.04 to 12.10 upgrade
I performed upgrade to 12.10 from 12.04 using update-manager. Unfortunately, there was some error, because when I came back from the coffee, the screen was black.
I opened a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) ...
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Change Dash home width
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Unity 2D on my netbook.
I will see Dash home full screen (main menu on all display). How can I change its width?
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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 to make Unity's Dash save the results filtering?
The dash can remember the settings for filtered results for the entire session, but not beyond that. Once the profile is logged out and back in the results would reset to their original settings; ...
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Dash is slow and shows irrelevant results
I currently have the latest Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my laptop. Usually I use Launchy application to have a quick access to any app/config/file etc. Now I'm trying to get used to Dash, which is ...
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Picture lens doesn't find anything
I get Facebook results, but nothing from my computer.
If I open a terminal and use 'locate' then I can find stuff, but the picture lens is empty.
Note that my picture files are on an NTFS ...
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How do I fix the Dash search not being able to find “additional drivers” nor “update”? [duplicate]
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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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Dash does not come when meta key is pressed and now application is open [closed]
For some reason the dash does not come up after pressing the meta key when no application is open, is there a way to fix that?
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unity-lens-help stopped working
I just discovered that the unity-lens-help does not deliver any results.
All scopes are present. I have tried sudo apt-get --reinstall install unity-lens-help
without success.
Anyone here with a ...
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Start IDEA from menu
I trying to run IDEA from dash menu. So I've create .desktop file for it and put it to /usr/share/applications:
$ cat /usr/share/applications/idea.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=IDEA
Comment=IntelliJ ...
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Unity Dash is not clickable
Version 12.04, NVidia GeForce 8600 GS with driver 304.43
I switch to Unity 2D because 3D was very slow (intensive hard disk activity, seems related to 3D)
The problem now is that the Unity panel is ...
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How to add Sublime text to dash board
I tried 2 types of links and it still I cant add it! I use the unregistered 64 version. On Ubuntu forums and external site
Why is it not coming in the dash board. What is wrong? I even restarted the ...
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True Panel Opacity/Transparency
Okay, So I have a question that is partially solved.
I don't know if anyone has really tweaked and paid attention to their panel opacity/transparency. But an odd thing is that the transparency isn't ...
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Icons in Dash show up in weird colors. OpenGL Issue?
I have a somewhat weird issue with my Precise setup (32bit). Since last Friday some colors are very different from the original ones. But only in the Dash (not in Nautilus or the panel). Moreover, the ...
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Dash bar is not comming up 12.04
I have an nVidia card and drivers installed.
Everything was going on correctly until I installed he updates.
After the updates(nVidia drivers are also updated) the hidden Dash bar stays hidden :(
Is ...
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How to prevent unity dash from taking keyboard control [duplicate]
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How can I stop Unity 2d intercepting meta key when I'm in VirtualBox?
Issue Summary:
When using virtualbox (VB) in fullscreen mode, VB takes control of the screen. ...
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Dash empy and blank Software Center [duplicate]
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Dash search gives no result
I've Ubuntu 12.10.1 LTS x62 fresh of installation...
My dash is empty, search doesn't work and applications list is empty.
If I run the ...
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How to disable the activity log for the application lens? [duplicate]
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How do I stop Unity from remembering search history?
How to clear search history of application search? Every time when I select application lens or press Super+A it ...
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Create an icon in Dash panel?
I wonder how to create an icon on Dash panel on the left side of the desktop, to run the following combination of two commands
killall nautilus
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= nautilus
My Ubuntu is 12.04.
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How to configure which lenses appear in the Dash home screen?
I have about 8 lenses installed. Some of them (Everpad, AskUbuntu) I'd like to appear on the Dash home page, and others (Downloads) that are on the home page I would like to not be there. Anyway to ...
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How to add directories to the File Lens? [duplicate]
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How to let Ubuntu index and find files on a different (Windows) drive when searching?
I want to add directories other than those found by default in File lens?
Is that ...
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Dash Previews - Keyboard Shortcut? [duplicate]
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What are Unity’s keyboard and mouse shortcuts?
In 12.10, there is a "preview feature", which shows a preview upon right-clicking the result in the dash.
I would like to ...
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Dash Home pane disappears when clicked [closed]
I am having a problem with Dash Home. When I launch it from my launcher bar, I get the translucent search pane (like I always did, even when it worked). However, if I try to click anywhere in the dash ...
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How to integrate the Run command to be a Unity lens?
I want to integrate the run command to be a unity lens so I don't need to press Alt + F2 to run a command. It would then be reachable from dash like any other lens such as file, music, ..
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How can I remove Home/Folders from my Unity dash?
How can I remove from Dash the Home/Folders: 'Pictures', 'Music', 'Videos' and 'Downloads", which I have already removed from my /home directory?
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Is there a tool to manage dash lenses?
My Ubuntu 12.04 dash has become a clutter on lenses. At first I installed every lens I found on the internet. Most of them now I seldom use. So, is there any quick way to add/hide/remove lenses?
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Do i remember right that the dash had a start page with big icons? [duplicate]
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Dash search gives no result
My dash start page worked perfectly for the first 2-3 months.. now it is exactly like this for about 2 months:
Bug? Should i report it? Is ...
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How do I change the order in which lenses appear in the dash?
Application lenses seem to be ordered alphabetically by default:
From left to right: dash home --> applications --> extras-unity-lens-wikipedia --> files --> music --> recoll --> video
Is there ...
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What's the command to open the Unity Dash?
I would like to know the command (from the Terminal) which opens the Unity dash, the reason being I want to create a desktop icon that starts the dash instead of the 'Windows Key' for keyboard-free ...
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How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash?
How can I disable Amazon search results in the Unity dash?
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How to remove or uninstall a Unity scope
I intalled the Unity Photo Lens using this commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-photo unity-scope-flickr ...
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New App doesn't appear in Unity dash
I have copied an executable in /usr/bin a program that I'd like to use.
Of course I can launch it with the command line. However it doesn't appear in Unity when I open the dash, and I would like to ...
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Will all Dash input in 12.10 be sent to Amazon?
It seems like all user input to the Dash home lens is send to Amazon by default in Ubuntu 12.10, is this correct?
