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The Applications Lens allows searching for installed applications and applications available for download in the Unity Dash. It can also filter applications based on category.

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How to remove icons/shortcuts from Unity menu?

I have installed Chromium and Tweet Deck on it (trough Chrome Store), now I uninstalled Tweet Deck and after that Chromium, the problem is, when I installed Tweet Deck it asked me if I want to create a shortcut to it and I chose YES. Now that both…
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Unity Applications lens is empty

I am using Unity on Ubuntu 12.04. For some time now, the Applications lens is completely empty when I open it. If I search for any applications from the Home or Applications lens, no results show up. I have tried killing and launching the…
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How do I make Dash only show installed applications by default?

While it's easy to use the filter in Dash in Ubuntu 12.10 to show only the installed programs (and not offer suggestions), I'd like to make this permanent. As it stands, you have to reset it each time you boot your machine.
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How do I show the Applications Lens By Default?

While I am growing to be more and more fond of Unity, there are a few minor things I'd like to change. One of them in which is the default view of the dash. When I go into the dash, 99% of the time it's after an application. I'd REALLY like to find…
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What qualifies an application as frequently used?

I am aware that something called Zeitgeist is used to determine the "Most Frequently Used" part of the unity dashboard, but i was wondering what the specifics where. I know the amount of applications in this section varies, so it's not as simple as…
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Will Xubuntu also have amazon ads?

I've been reading on the news, forums, and different websites that the new version in 12.10, which i'll eventually have to upgrade to if I plan on using Ubuntu, has a lens/amazon function on the dash that sends queries to amazon. Now, this disturbs…
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Ubuntu 20.04 Unity No applications in "start" menu after upgrading from 18.04

So yesterday I've upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 from 18.04, firstly I had to finish up with a partial upgrade that the software updater suggested, then it asked me to remove all the unused packages so I did, then I've ran it one more time to be sure ALL…
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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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How do I make an application appear in the dash?

Possible Duplicate: How do I add an application to the dash? I have an app that I downloaded to ~/Documents/app-name. How do I make it appear in the dash? Symlink it somewhere? If yes, where? ( If I symlink the file in /usr/bin it is found with…
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Application lens installend but missing in dash

I have a very strange problem: the "Applications" lens does not appear in unity dash. The unity-lens-application and unity-places-applications packages are installed, i tried also unity --reset but that didn't help. On the other hand, other users on…
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Applications icon in the dash keeps disappearing

Inside the Dash there are some links at the bottom - home, applications, files, music. The applications icon keeps disappearing, and then reappearing after. No particular event or key press. What's wrong? Error confirmed and still occurring…
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Getting xsession-errors after Unity Lens install

I apologize in advance if I am leaving something out here. Please let me know what additional info is required, and i will be happy to post it. Can you tell me what these error messages are, and how I can go about resolving them? WARN 2012-02-02…
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Display available applications in Applications Lens

On Ubuntu 16.04.1, searches in the Applications lens return installed apps but not available apps, even though gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.ApplicationsLens display-available-apps is true. For example, search for "twitter" returns results in…
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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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Dashboard search - change default page

Every time we Ubuntu users click the dash icon, and the Dash opens, we are always greeted by the "general search" (home lens) page. Is there a way to change this? IE: I want to make the dash always open in the "Installed Applications" (application…
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