Ubuntu – assign custom keyboard shortcuts to custom (non-default) unity lenses

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I installed the recoller lense ( http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recoll-lens-full-text-search-unity-lens.html ) and now finally have fulltext search in dash.

File lense is opened with super+F, music with super+M and so on. Can (and how can ) I assing such a shortuct to this new lense?

It appears that lens package is installing using a pre-existing shortcut, a, why I don't know. (a bug should be filed, at least for 12.04

To check & edit, make sure you use something not in use, here I used l

sudo -H gedit /usr/share/unity/lenses/recoll/recoll.lens

change Shortcut=a to a letter of your choice

Noting again that this is what I found on 12.04

Make sure you have those packages installed:
```
unity-lens-applications
unity-lens-files
```
Make sure you have those two files in /usr/share/unity/lenses:
```
applications.lens
files.lens
```

If it still doesn't work, try to reinstall the two packages:

sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files

If it still doesn't work, I suggest reporting a bug report:

ubuntu-bug unity # if unity is the wrong package, others will fix it

Check Ubuntu API pages, it certainly have required APIs