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I'm desperately trying to get rid of all those search results in the Unity dash. I've followed several pages but some things stubbornly remain even though their lens/scope doesn't seem to be present?!

--> How do I get rid of this?!

Here's what I still have:

torben@torben-desktop:~⟫ dpkg -l | grep scope
ii  libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop                     7.1.4+14.10.20140808-0ubuntu1                  all          binding to get places into the launcher - desktop def file
ii  libunity-scopes3:amd64                               0.6.16+15.04.20150410.3-0ubuntu1               amd64        API for Unity scopes integration
ii  unity-plugin-scopes:amd64                            0.5.4+15.04.20150410.2-0ubuntu1                amd64        QML plugin for Scopes
ii  unity-scope-calculator                               0.1+14.04.20140328-0ubuntu1                    all          Calculator scope for Unity
ii  unity-scope-home                                     6.8.2+15.04.20150311.1-0ubuntu1                amd64        Home scope that aggregates results from multiple scopes
ii  unity-scope-scopes                                   0.1+14.10.20140820-0ubuntu1                    amd64        A scope for browsing Unity scopes
ii  unity-scopes-master-default                          6.8.2+15.04.20150311.1-0ubuntu1                all          Home scope that aggregates results from multiple scopes
ii  unity-scopes-runner                                  7.1.4+14.10.20140808-0ubuntu1                  all          desktop runner for misceallenous scopes
torben@torben-desktop:~⟫ dpkg -l | grep lens
ii  liblensfun-data                                      0.2.8-2                                        all          Lens Correction library - Data
ii  liblensfun0                                          0.2.8-2                                        amd64        Lens Correction library - Runtime files
ii  unity-lens-applications                              7.1.0+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu2                  amd64        Application lens for unity
ii  unity-lens-files                                     7.1.0+13.10.20130920-0ubuntu1                  amd64        File lens for unity
torben@torben-desktop:~⟫

But in the actual dash, I still have a lot of crud:

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I had also made sure that system settings > Security & Privacy > Search > Include online search results is off. Next time I checked, it was on again. I turned it off again. Now after yet another reboot it seems to stay off (but I no longer trust it to stay there).

With that privacy setting off, the dash no longer shows me the results, but the filters are still available and I want them completely gone. (I don't ever need weather in my dash and I don't even know what "Skimlinks" is.)

--> How do I get rid of this?! Thank you very much in advance!

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  • what about dpkg -l | grep lens – mchid Sep 03 '15 at 21:52
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    also it is in the privacy statement if you read it that you must do the following: Go to system settings > Click the Security & Privacy icon > click the Search tab, and toggle the Include online search results option to Off – mchid Sep 03 '15 at 21:55
  • Also, restart lightdm or log out and then log back in. – mchid Sep 03 '15 at 22:06
  • Okay now I'm confused... I had just restarted and confirmed that the problem still persisted; yes, it did: I still had all those filters shown in the screenshot above. And that privacy setting as "on" again; I turned it off again. Now I've restarted again and the privacy setting is "off" and all those extra filters are gone now. I don't understand how that worked, but I'm happy to have it resolved (for now, anyway). – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Sep 04 '15 at 19:20

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You can remove some scopes thru a package manager, synaptic works well.

The other way for any unwanted that remain is to open the Applications lens. Scroll down to Dash plugins, click on the 1st one listed. If wanted click on > to move to next plugin. If not wanted then click on disable, then > twice to go to the next scope. Repeat as desired to move thru all the scopes disabling ones you don't want.

A log in/out may be required to reflect changes.

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