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I removed the files, video, photos and friends lenses with the following command.
sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-files unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos unity-lens-friends
Although the corresponding results have disappeared from dash, only the friends tab has been removed.
There still are tabs…
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.
I've read about a lense (ppa:pydave/unity-lenses) that you can replace with the original files and folders lense, so you can search all your files. Instead of the current which only search used/recently used files and programs. I couldn't get this to work with 12.10, got a…
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I have just started experimenting with extra lens in Unity. I installed some that I found listed in an AskUbuntu question. Some of them don't seem to work.
The "Cooking" lens is supposed to show recipes, but I just get a blank result - nothing is found.
I have another lens which I assume is the…
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If you’ve ever used a high power lens, you know how tricky it can be to sight a distant subject as the field of view through the lens is so tiny. This hack takes care of that problem by using a zero-magnification red dot rifle scope. Chris Malcolm enjoys photographing birds and other wildlife…
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Sometimes, I find myself typing the same (or quite similar) search strings inside a Unity Lens. So, I thought whether it's possible for the Lens to remember previous searches, and provide a drop-down menu of possible suggestions (based on the past) when I start typing my new query.
With Lenses for…
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