Scopes are the back ends used to provide results for searches performed through the Unity Dash.
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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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How to write a simple scope for a Unity lens?
I am looking for a tutorial on writing a scope for simple search from a website. The tutorial at Ubuntu wiki is very complex.
If somebody can explain me the steps to write a scope in a simplest way, ...
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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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How to change the order of scopes in a lens?
I recently installed 12.04, and have started to to fiddle around with lenses. I've installed two scopes for the music lens: Spotify and Grooveshark.
It seems to me that the current scope display ...
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What's being done to make lenses be easily available to users?
This is not strictly a question and if it does not meet the criteria for entries on AskUbuntu, it should be deleted. However, I have been thinking on this for a while and thought this would be the ...
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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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Is there a way to search an MPD library with the music lens?
I use MPD, along with the GUI client Sonata to play all my music. It works quite well, but none of my music shows up in the music lens (since I don't use Banshee or Rhythmbox, it's just empty). Has ...
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scope-contacts-google and unity-scope-spotify is missing packages which won't be installed
When I try to install scope-contacts-google and unity-scope-spotify, it says that is misses
gir1.2-dee-0.5 for google
gir1.2-unity-4.0 and gir1.2-dee-0.5 for spotify.
When I try to install these ...
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How to compile a Unity scope? (Or: how to use libraries in Vala?)
I'm currently learning Vala, and after going through the basics I wanted to do an actual small project to make it more fun. For this, I thought creating a scope for Unity would be perfect (in this ...
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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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How to fix VLC not recognizing the input format from YouTube Lens?
I have Ubuntu 11.10 and VLC 1.1.12. When I click on a video result in the lens, it opens VLC and I get the following error:
VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of ...
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Is there an Amarok scope for the music lens?
I'm searching for an amarok scope for the music lens for a while now but could not find anything, not even a project. Anybody got something working?
I use amarok as i love the dynamic play lists and ...
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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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Searching Content Inside of Pictures and Scans?
I'm pretty exciting by the "scopes" within Ubuntu to search.
However, I've had trouble finding any concrete answers on the following.
I love using Evernote and Google Drive because they both search ...
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Problem in installing YouTube unity lens
I was trying to installing YouTube lens and scope from Ubuntu.
I typed the following in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ...
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Update Package Manager failed, E:type “ain” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix this “E:Type '*' is not known on line * in source list …” update error?
The Update Manager failed and gave me this error:
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How do I install the scopes of graphic design lens in 12.04?
In Ubuntu 11.10, I used a unity-lens called graphicdesign from ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa.
I installed it on both 11.10 and 12.04 with:
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-graphicdesign ...
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rhythmbox-scope consuming lots of memory
I've noticed that rhythmbox-scope for unity-hud's music-lens is taking something above 18% of my memory all the time without doing anything useful.
Actually using it for searching music doesn't ...
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Where on the filesytem could a user find the Unity scope files?
I am wanting to find the Unity scope folder so that I can study how the scopes are set up and programmed. Where on the filesytem could I find the Unity scope files?
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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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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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Youtube scope for unity dash
I just added the scope-youtube from the Lens for Unity ppa (atareao/lenses) along with the yavol needed lens to work with. I can open the yavol config tool to select browser/download/whatever, and the ...
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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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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 ...
