Ubuntu – My Dash does not show recent applications. What can I do to fix that

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For some unknown reason, my Unity dash doesn't show recent applications. I am guessing it could be related to the fact that I have a newer version of zeitgeist than the standard repo provides (I use a ppa).

That is the only unusual detail I can think of. What can I do to get back recent applications in the dash?

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There was a similar problem reported here

The solution was to reinstall unity-lens-applications and unity-lens-files packages and the Dash magically works.

Both these packages were formely named unity-place-applications and unity-place-files

We are looking into it. Probably some packaging issue.

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It seems like you're using quite recent version of zeitgeist engine, but an old version of zeitgeist-datahub, make sure you updated to the latest version of datahub available from zeitgeist PPA.

Update: Your installation is seriously screwed, apparently at one point you installed zeitgeist from source and you also have it installed from a package, another thing is that the latest version of datahub available in zeitgeist PPA is 0.5.1, version 0.5.2 was when it was still part of the engine package (ie from zeitgeist 0.5.2).

So first remove everything zeitgeist-related (all packages), then run locate zeitgeist and remove everything it finds (some of those will be already deleted). Next install zeitgeist package from PPA, but make sure you're also installing datahub from PPA (ie version 0.5.1), you might need to force using that version.

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The problem could be in corrupted FTS index. See the bug report.

The solution is to remove the index - this shouldn't affect your overall history of activities.

zeitgeist-daemon --quit
rm -rvf ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/fts.index/
zeitgeist-daemon --replace

(Based on Michal Hruby's solution from the linked bug report.)

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