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http://askubuntu.com – My dash is completely empty. The alt-f2 run screen load applications if I type in the commands. But the others are completely empty on my own profile. In a guest profile, they work as expected. I've read the other similar questions and tried both of these options. Neither had any effect: apt-get install --reinstall unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity --reset I've upgraded from 10.14 to 12.04 and the lens / dash has never worked. What could be left over in my home directory from a previous version that would mean these lenses are empty? (HowTos)

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Application lenses seem to be ordered alphabetically by default:

From left to right: dash home --> applications - extras-unity-lens-wikipedia - files - music - recoll - video

Is there any way you can change this order? Perhaps by modifying the .lens files in /usr/share/unity/lenses?

I'd rather hear from someone who has done this already before messing around on my own.

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.

When I open my dash in unity (Ubuntu 11.10 upgraded from 11.04), it looks completely fine. Once I start typing though, all entries vanish and the dash is completely empty. It worked fine yesterday. Any ideas how to fix that? Can't think of anything, I changed.

Here are some screens:

Edit: Of course I tried this to no effect:

sudo apt-get purge unity && sudo apt-get install unity

I have removed the Unity DE using this command:

Code: sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-common indicator-sound indicator-power indicator-appmenu libindicator7 indicator-application evolution-indicator indicator-datetime indicator-mess

Hi,

I'm trying to remove unity from a ubuntu desktop, and later install MATE.

I tried to remove the following packages:

For 11.10 (per http://askubuntu.com/questions/6302/...u-remove-unity)

Code: sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-

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