Lenses are elements of the Unity Dash that provide a UI to search both the web and application data. If you have a question related to a specific lens included by default, please use its tag instead.
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Lenses installed on 13.04 not working/appearing
I had tried to install Lenses found at this question, to what lenses are available.
After asking this question, if those lenses would work on 13.04.
However, I had installed the calculator & ...
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Unity Music Lens duplicates entries on Ubuntu 12.04
I had been using Clementine and its clementine-scope for a while, but a week ago I decided to switch back to Rhythmbox (better Unity integration, easier to use). The problem is that now the music lens ...
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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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Disable “Search Photos” Lens shortcut (Super+C) and Assign to Shutter
I used to use Super+C to take a screenshot with Shutter. After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I have found the Super+C shortcut to be mapped to a "Search Photos" lens. I tried going through Compiz (and ...
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Disable recommendation on application lens [duplicate]
For some reason, my choice of disabling display for uninstalled applications is not a reminder during sessions. Even though I choose it all the time.
It makes the application lens dead slow on first ...
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Will lenses or scopes that worked in 12.04 work in 13.04?
Am I able to install a lens or a scope in 13.04 that I had used before in 12.04?
Are the lenses and scopes build earlier (What lenses are available for Unity?) able "to just work" on 13.04?
Looking ...
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What do the listed unity lenses do?
Ubuntu 12.04 synaptic package manager shows these unity lenses:
unity-lens-applications
unity-lens-files
unity-lens-music
unity-lens-video
What do the lenses do? And do they send dash searches or ...
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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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What Unity Lenses and Scopes are available to add? [duplicate]
I am curious to know what sort of unity scopes can we add in Ubuntu 13.04.
I have tried a YouTube lens but it doesn't work.
Are there any scopes/lenses (except the default ones) I can add to the ...
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What is source of local videos for unity video lens?
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04. I tried to use unity music, photos and video lenses. Music and photo lenses doesn't show any result. I found that it is because it depends upon rhythmbox and shotwell ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Unity Social Lens Not Showing Anything
My Unity social lens is empty. I've enabled social networking in my online accounts. I've installed the Friends Twitter client, which is working fine. Anyone any ideas?
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Integrate network shares in lens results
I have movies, music and photos on a NAS that I have permanently mounted through /etc/fstab. I noticed when I go into the launcher and click on any of the music, photo and video lens, the results do ...
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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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'y' character does not display in lens
As the title suggests, when I type in the lens the 'y' character does not display.
Anything with 'y' still works. E.g synaptic still runs.
I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 in a virtual environment.
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How to activate my lens on Quantal?
How to enable/activate any unity lens on Quantal?
I installed many unity lens on Quantal, using the following command, but none is active on dash.
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-wikipedia
sudo ...
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“Dead” shortcuts in Installed Application lens
I installed some programs using Wine, so I could get the hang of how Wine works, I then uninstalled the programs, but I now have "dead" generic "toolbox" icons left in the Installed Applications lens. ...
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Where do I find a terminal lens for Unity?
I have been googling for a terminal lens, i.e. a Unity lens that integrates the terminal into the usual dash replaces the current Alt+F2 functionality.
For instance one could have a line of icons ...
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Custom Eclipse.desktop launcher showing humongous icon in app lens [duplicate]
Followed the instructions from the accepted and highest voted answer of How to pin Eclipse to the Unity launcher? which created the wanted Eclipse launcher icon.
However, the likewise resulting ...
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Lenses & Scopes - Is it possible to copy content by clicking on it in the Dash?
I just got an idea to create a lense that would work as a Character Map. I need character copying very often, and on Windows there was a very useful programme (PopChar), but on Ubuntu I haven't found ...
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Music lens does not show my music
I have 10GBs of mp3, aac and flac files on my hard disk. Most of them were legally purchased online or ripped from CDs. Some of them aren't. The music lens does not show any of my music when I search. ...
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Unity/Lenses wiki tutorial needs clarification
I'm trying to create my first Unity lens. I'm following this wiki topic.
I get confused within this step : Using the Lens Object.
have I to install libunity ?
Where does the presented code have to be ...
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Why does Ubuntu Music Lens display only a few songs and albums?
The Ubuntu Music Lens displays just a few songs and albums of my music collections. For example the lens displays just 44 albums but it should be 200 albums.
If I type the name of the song or album in ...
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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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Youtube Unity Lens Returns No Results On 12.10
I'm having trouble with getting access to Youtube's content via the Unity lens. I thought it was my computer's proxy problem in general, however Wikipedia and Ask Ubuntu lenses both are able to ...
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Photo lens doesn't show online images
I've added my Picasa & Facebook accounts to the list of Online Accounts, but yet the photo lens displays only those images in my machine, and nothing from Facebook / Picasa.
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unity launcher & lens need long wake up time after boot
I am using 12.04 on a Dell Inspiron
Normally the unity lens and launcher are immediately operational once boot is complete. However suddenly they need some kind of 'wake up time' (upto 1 minute or ...
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How to change geolocation for Unity News Lens results?
I've installed the Unity News Lens as per the instructions from this answer.
The lens uses geolocation to provide results from local news sources. This is a great lens - except it geolocated me ...
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Unity downloaded lens not working
I have installed two lenses for unity using some ppa. One of them is yavol for youtube,and other is unity-lens-cooking. But none of then is working. After installing, I restarted the system so that ...
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Installation of the unity stock ticker lens failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
unity-stock-ticker-lens : Depends: python-unity-singlet (>= 0.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held ...
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Some lenses not working in 12.04
I have just started experimenting with extra lens in Unity. I installed some that I found listed in an AskUbuntu question. Some of them don't seem to work.
The "Cooking" lens is supposed to show ...
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Maximum number of lenses displayable in Ubuntu 12.10?
What is the maximum number of lens the heads up display will shown in Ubuntu 12.10? I would like to know, and I am sure other would as well. I don't want to install more than allowable or usable.
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Music lens doesn't work
My brother did something and now the music lens doesn't work. Now there's no filter and no search results. Yesterday, everything worked.
How do I reinstall this lens?
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Application Demons keeps failing after Last Updation
Various application demones keeps failing after my last ubuntu update.
First Ubuntu Achievments Lense goes down and after music demon and list goes on ...
Does not gives any error report after demon ...
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How to limit Gwibber and Gwibber Lens messages
The number of messages both in Gwibber and also in the Gwibber Lens (I guess it is the same) in 12.10 are growing and growing (> 900). How can I limit the number of displayed messages? No, I don't ...
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Removing lens from Ubuntu 12.10
I would like to remove lens from Ubuntu's unity environment.
You might argue that I can go back to Ubuntu-Gnome classic. But I would like to retain global menu feature of Ubuntu.
Please help. Thanks ...
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Can I change from Recent apps to Most frequent apps
I'd like to change the way Unity selects apps for the application lens from "Most recent" to "Most frequent" but I can find no way to do this. What to do? I'm using Ubuntu 12.10
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What is alternative to Unity's lens for Gnome Shell?
Is there any functionality like lens for Gnome shell? or any modified version of Gnome Shell.
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Music lens missing showing only 12 of 787 albums. 12.10
Why does the music lens showing only 12 of 787 albums in my music collection?
the music is stored on a SMB share, and as mentioned above the lens find some of the albums proving that it's not an ...
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How do I make music and videos from an external hard drive show up on the lens filters?
Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Unity. I keep all my music and movies on an external hdd and I was wondering if there was a way to make the media on the hdd show up on the dash and its lens filters.
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Is there a websearch lense for ubuntu 12.10?
I found a websearch lense before , but it wasn't available for Ubuntu 12.10
so, Is there a websearch lense for ubuntu 12.10 ?
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How do I package a Unity lens? [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu apps and Launchpad. I've created a Unity lens using Quickly, but I'm stuck on how to deploy it. I have two questions.
I can create a .deb file using quickly package, but when I ...
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THIS .. doesnt work: install per terminal with prefix
There's a wiki to install Unity lens named unity-bliss.
First download the latest lens package from the project launchpad page (by clicking on the green button to the right).
Move this package to ...
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Pirate bay lens no search results found ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
Alright just installed the Pirate Bay lense and scope following the guide here.
What lenses for Unity are available?
Restart computer shows up in dash home but no matter what is typed in the search ...
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Photo Lens does not work
The new photo lens in Ubuntu's 12.10 dash does not work for me. It simple shows nothing. All other lenses work like a charm. I have not switched off any sources in 'Privacy Settings'.
Yes, I have ...
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Make Amazon web app and Unity lens search Amazon.co.uk instead of .com [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can the shopping lens be changed to display results from Amazon.co.uk?
I'm from Portugal and I use Amazon.co.uk a lot. The problem is that the web app and the new Unity ...
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Configure Unity Lenses and what they search [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.
I've read about a lense (ppa:pydave/unity-lenses) that you can replace with the original files and folders lense, so you can search all your files. Instead of the current ...
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12.10 Amazon Lens Search results produce error when clicked [closed]
I just upgraded to 12.10 and love the new Amazon search results in the lens. I need to order a number of books soon and would like Canonical to receive credit, but I can not get the lens redirect to ...
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What does this string do in a Unity lens?
My question is based on this article.
My Wikipedia lens is working well and this article is very nice.
But I don't understand, what is this string doing:
for article in self.wikipedia_query(search):
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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; ...
