Ubuntu – How to change the order in which lenses appear in the dash

lensesunityunity-dash

Application lenses seem to be ordered alphabetically by default:

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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.

Best Answer

Aking 1012 was right, almost. You have to change both the folder name and the .lens name in the folder for the change to take effect.

Head to /usr/share/unity/lenses:

gksu nautilus /usr/share/unity/lenses

Rename both the lens folder and the .lens file to change their alphabetical order, e.g.:

recoll --> yrecoll

and

recoll.lens --> yrecoll.lens

I found that editing the default lenses was quite buggy and resulted in some scopes being disabled. That's why I settled for editing my custom lenses only. This is the result for yrecoll and zwikipedia:

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