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Questions tagged [lenses]

Lenses are elements of the Unity Dash that provide a UI to search both the web and application data. If you have a question related to a specific lens included by default, please use its tag instead.

Lenses were previously known as "Places". They can be used as quick searchable plugins to the Unity Dash. You can make Lenses for your favorite web sites and applications:

Screenshot of a lens on Ubuntu 11.04

A partial list of available lenses can be found here: What lenses for Unity are available?

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Easy tutorial to create Unity Lens?

Possible Duplicate: How do I start developing a lens for Unity? Okay, I have been researching all day and night about creating a Unity Lens. Unfortunately, I ended up for nothing. I found most of the tutorials on the web such as here and here are…
Hidden Beauty
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How do I disable the "Available for purchase" list on the Music lens?

I have no intentions in buying music, so I would like to disable it!
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search through all lenses

Currently I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with some additional lenses. Is it possible to search though all lenses at the same time? For example when I type "Tom" it looks for all calendar events (through Calendar events lenses), all Empathy contacts and…
Sebastian Łaskawiec
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how to hide specific lens from search results

I want to be able to hide some search results from Dash and only show them when I click on that particular lens. For example, I want to hide Gwibber posts from the general search results (when the "home" icon is selected) and only show the results…
Hippo
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torrent lens not working

I have just installed the torrent lens on ubuntu 12.04 and it returns no matches for any keyword. I may have installed it incorrectly, but how can I check? i am new to Ubuntu and linux, only having installed it a few days ago.
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Some lenses not working in 12.04

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…
Jazz
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Maximum number of lenses displayable in Ubuntu 12.10?

What is the maximum number of lens the heads up display will shown in Ubuntu 12.10? I would like to know, and I am sure other would as well. I don't want to install more than allowable or usable.
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The video lens in unity is not showing up

I recently upgraded from ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 lts. the unity launcher dosent show the video lens.
patrick
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How to disable Music Lens

I'm trying to use Super+M for the magnifier. However, when I hit the keyboard sequence it activates Music Lens instead. I don't have a need for for the Music Lens, and would like to disable it so that it doesn't interfere with the Magnifier key…
L. D. James
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Suppressing suggest application in lens

When I use the lens to run the calculator (which if often), I can't type just 'calc[enter]' (which is what my muscle memory does), I have to type 'calcu[enter]' otherwise LibreOffice Calc starts. How can I suppress LibreOffice Calc from showing in…
Synesso
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