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Gnome Shell “Files & Folders” lens only finds files and folders in my home directory

GNOME shell only indexes some files in your home directory or in the "default" folders. However, for 17.10, a decision was made not to automatically install the necessary tools to modify the index, ...
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How to remove "Dash Plugins" from Applications lens?

I am using 16.04. Open /usr/share/unity/scopes/applications.scope: sudo gedit /usr/share/unity/scopes/applications.scope and remove this: [Category scopes] Name=Dash plugins Icon=/usr/share/icons/...
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what are the lenses still available for ubuntu 20.04 unity desktop environment?

Use the command apt list | grep unity-scope- to show all unity lenses that are available in the software sources connected to your system. apt search unity-scope- will also provide a small ...
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How to count words that don't have vowels?

I also believe, that this is homework... but you have to start somewhere ;-) $ echo "How to count w0rds that don't have vowels?" | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep -vic [aeiou] 1 By the way, this is only one ...
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How to remove "Dash Plugins" from Applications lens?

I know this is an old post, but a quicker way of removing scopes would be this command: apt-get remove unity-scope-* unity-scope-home+ It removes all the ones that aren't required for Ubuntu, and ...
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Gnome Shell “Files & Folders” lens only finds files and folders in my home directory

GNOME shell by default indexes files which are in your home directory or in the "default" folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos). But you can manually add a folder to be included ...
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Video, Music and Photo lenses show no results

sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-scope-home and sudo unity --replace & disown did the trick.
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Package responsible for Unity Dash search results (home lens, category "References")

I just filed my bug report against unity-scope-home for now. If any other package would be more suitable, please still tell me and I'll move the report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-scope-home/+...
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