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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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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Completely removing smart scopes
I want to know if it's possible to remove the Unity Smart Scopes?
Basically I like to keep a lean machine. I always remove just about everything I can - I actually only use the app and file lens', I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What exactly is a “lens”?
I've seen a number of questions about lenses, and I've picked up enough to work out that it's something to do with the Unity shell in Natty, but I haven't really worked out exactly what is meant by ...
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Unity Lenses Missing (files/folders, applications)
The File & Folders lens and default Applications lens is missing from my dock. How can I get them back?
I attempted the guide here: ...
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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 can I change the keyboard shortcut to switch lenses?
The keyboard shortcut to change lenses in 12.04 has changed from being Tab to being: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. As answered in this question: Keyboard shortcut for switching lenses
I can see that ...
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Unity Wikipedia-Like Wiktionary Lens [closed]
Hey guys I tried to create a Wiktionary Lens using this template, apparently it isn't as easy as I thought i would be.
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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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Unity Lens not working
I cant get the work. I have installed some unity lens such as the youtube one, askubuntu, torrent, music etc, but they don't work.
When I type anything nothing appears. I have tried to un-install ...
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What lenses for Unity are available?
This question is present as a matter of historical interest. While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on ...
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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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How can sort Youtube lens results relevance? [closed]
How can I set the Youtube lens to sort by relevance (or other criteria) by default?
I'm talking about the Youtube lens explored in this omgubuntu.co.uk article.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unity calendar lens not showing events
I'm trying to get proper/useful calendar integration into Ubuntu 12.04. I have a Google Calendar (& account) and I want to be able to use this without opening the browser.
I want to get the Unity ...
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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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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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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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Bug involving the launch of Firefox from Ask Ubuntu lens [closed]
I am running 12.04.1 with the Ask Ubuntu lens installed as well as Firefox 15.
There appears to be a bug when selecting an option from the lens which launches either a new window of Firefox, or a new ...
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Is there an Ask Ubuntu lens available for 11.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens, and how do I use it?
I have been searching around for an Ask Ubuntu lens recently that's compatible with 11.10.
Could ...
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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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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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Drawer or other organisation for hundreds of scripts in Unity Launcher
I have a large number of .sh scripts for opening ssh connections to various remote machines. These .sh scripts are grouped by staging/test/production/etc
In Gnome I had a series of entries in the ...
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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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How do I remove the Youtube Unity lens?
I installed the Youtube scope and lens using these commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yavol scope-youtube
Every ...
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Is it possible to programmatically call, access, or get results from the Unity Dash?
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After eyeing Unity's notification APIs for the past few releases, I've developed an itch to write a feed reader that syndicates new arrivals in the Messaging Menu...
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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 Gwibber lens doesn't work 12.10
Is there something Specific I am needing to do to get the unity Gwibber/Social lens to work.
I have gone into system settings and added google account, twitter account and facebook account. When I go ...
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Can I install the Amazon lens in 12.04?
I want to stay with the LTS release cycle but I would like to support Ubuntu with my Amazon purchases. Is there a way I can install the Amazon lens in 12.04?
