I want to open the Application lens
in the Unity Dash
as the default lens
, since I much more open a programm then searching for a Wikipedia article, the weather or anything else the Home lens offers.
Here
How do I show the Applications Lens By Default?
and here
What are Unity's keyboard and mouse shortcuts?
are the same questions, but the suggested answers don't work anymore on Trusty.
I know that I can open the Application lens
with Superkey + A but I just would like to press Superkey to open it.
An alternative would be to only get online suggestions when specifically asked for them, but even though I just select the application scope in the filter section I get some useless online results. BTW, I don't want to open the online search results in general, since I just reactivated them to try it out.
Answer but no solution: Just found this bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1089010. Till it will be fixed JohnnyEnglish's answer as a workaround will is the best.
Best Answer
install
dconf
if you don't have itsudo apt-get install dconf-editor
if you want to use GUI way, indconf
go tocom
>canonical
>unity
>lenses
all the rest you can find hereIf you want to disable
maximum per-monitor scale-factor
go todconf
then navigate tocom
>canonical
>unity
>interface
and uncheck theticked
box.If you want to swap your
Home .scope
withApplications .scope
go todconf
then navigate tocom
>canonical
>unity
>dash
and change the order of.scopes
the way that you desire or uncomment any if you want to.How to hide or disable a reference in
Dash
results from searching in remote and commercial sources go todconf
then navigate tocom
>canonical
>unity
>lenses
click onremote-content-search
and changeall
tonone
.