Questions tagged [lenses]
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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Unity dash: Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search
I face with problem
Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search
When searching in applications. However searching within files or musics etc is ok. Just applications are not found. it even ...
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How to Tell Dash to look for music on other NTFS partitions?
All my songs and videos are present in NTFS partition, as a result whenever i search for music in dash it results nothing. So how do i tell dash to look for content in specific folder rather than ...
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Music lens does not play music through default music player
I have set Rhythmbox as my default music player through System Settings > Details, but when I browse and play music from the Unity dash, Banshee opens up and plays the music. How can I have Rhythmbox ...
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How to permanently enable/disable lens
I've installed this old PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll unity-scope-recoll
to get recoll search results integrated ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 No Lenses
I upgraded from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10 and Unity Application Lenses do not work.
I have tried:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-scope-home
sudo unity --reset(no more supported).
sudo unity --...
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After removing smart scopes Unity with Active Blur becomes very slow
Before testing smart scopes my computer ran Unity perfectly. The dash opened instantly when either pressing the super key or clicking the icon. I tried out smart scopes and attempted to use it but ...
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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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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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DuckDuckGo lens for Unity 16.04
Does anyone know of a DuckDuckGo lens for Ubuntu unity 16.04? A google lens would also be okay. I've had a look here and there is no installation package.
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How do I get the dash to open on the application scope rather than the home scope
I want to be able to do this by clicking on the dash icon in the launcher rather than using some kind of key combination.
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How to show recently used apps in the home lens in dash search instead of installed applications?
As I rarely use Libre Office Calc but use the calculator all the time, I would like to see calculator show up first when I start typing calc only.
This is the default behavior in the applications ...
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Unity lens - what is 'locked-scopes'
Pulling up the .dconf editor GUI, under unity/lenses, there is the 'locked-scopes' field.
What does it do?
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How to keep search value in unity dashboard during changing lenses?
If I go to the unity dashboard and search for something, the search value is not available on other lenses.
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No applications found in the Dash Home
Running 12.04: When I go to the Dash Home, it shows no applications, anywhere, including the Applications lens.
I would include a screenshot, but I apparently need at least 10 reputation in order to ...
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How do you add The Pirate Bay scope?
So, I've installed unity-scope-piratebay, but it doesn't work in 14.04. unity-lens-torrents is not published for trusty and even after installing from a .deb file it doesn't work. There is no lens and ...
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Tomboy notes aren't searchable from Dash
I installed Tomboy and created an example note.
Trying to search both the title (first line) and the content didn't give any results.
I was expecting the notes to show up after searching for them, ...
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Cannot access installed applications from HUD
I was trying to get rid of dash plugins within the search, so I created & copied a list of my scopes and used:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "[$(find /usr/share/unity/...
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Can't create Unity lens with Ubuntu 14.04
I want create a Unity lens, I follow this exemple : http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/04/how-to-create-a-wikipedia-unity-lens-for-ubuntu/
I use :
quickly create unity-lens wikipedia
When I try :
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Some smart scopes not working
In addition to one of my questions here on this site, I discovered that a lot of my enabled smart scopes do not work in Ubuntu 13.10. For example Zotero, almost all music lenses except banshee etc...
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how to use unity-scope-sshsearch?
I used unity-lens-sshsearch on 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04. But after upgrading to 13.10 it's not working any more. (Super+H does nothing)
As the lens package is not available on 13.10 I installed unity-...
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customizing scopes/lenses?
In the video scopes it shows 2 of my movies in my ~/Videos/Movies(/Media/Videos/Movies) folder. When I have some 20 movies in there. The scope wont show my TV shows either under ~/Videos/TV_Shows/. I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Unity lens to search for tags
I want to develop a dash lens to search files by tags (the ones that are set through Nautilus). I know on the one hand this program, that does the search:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/...
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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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Is there anything like Unity's "lenses" in GNOME 3?
The lenses were the best things in Ubuntu's history in my opinion. Is there any possibility to get this with a new distro?
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Installed everpad, but lenses doesn't work
I installed everpad through the nvbn-rm ppa (https://launchpad.net/~nvbn-rm/+archive/ubuntu/ppa) apparently everything works well except the unity integration with the everpad-lenses, it doesn't show ...
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Unity Lens Google Chrome Icon Will Not Go Away
I was watching a youtube video, and quit chrome. For some reason, chrome saved itself as the youtube video name as in instead of Google Chrome, it is saved on the unity lens as "Three Main reasons War ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Custom Unity Lenses don't appear in the dash
I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I have installed custom unity lenses, the pirate bay torrent lens for example, but they aren't appearing in the dash. I have logged out and back in, and I have rebooted the ...
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Getting an error while installing calculator lens
This is the error I get every time I try installing calculator lens
yash@yash-desktop:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa
[sudo] password for yash:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password ...
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How do I install unity-lens-shopping?
I am trying to install the unity-lens-shopping app.
I've downloaded unity-lens-shopping-6.8.0. When I ran ./configure the first time it complained I did not have the valac compiler. I went to the ...
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Can the Unity File Lens display detailed file information?
Is it possible to make Unity File Lens to display synthetic information about the files recalled by a search? It would be very useful, for example, if it could display the location, the size and the ...
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Can't see installed software
I've install the "Ask Ubuntu Lens" from the software center but it didn't show up is the lenses and I can't search for it as an install app ! What should I do ?
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