Ubuntu – Unable to remove some unity lenses

13.10lensesunity

I removed the files, video, photos and friends lenses with the following command.

sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-files unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos unity-lens-friends

Although the corresponding results have disappeared from dash, only the friends tab has been removed.

There still are tabs for files, video and photos, albeit empty.

How do I remove these empty tabs? I use Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.

I understand that this issue didn't exist in 12.04. The directory structure of unity lenses seems to have changed from 12.04 to 13.10. Earlier the lenses were stored in /usr/share/unity/lenses/. That isn't the case now, rendering this answer inappropriate: https://askubuntu.com/a/120116/111720

Best Answer

  1. Install dconf-editor using synaptic

  2. Uninstall these packets using synaptic :

    • unity-lens-photos
    • unity-lens-music
    • unity-lens-video

    • unity-lens-friends

    • unity-scope-calculator

    • unity-scope-chromiumbookmarks
    • unity-scope-clementine
    • unity-scope-colourlovers
    • unity-scope-devhelp
    • unity-scope-firefoxbookmarks
    • unity-scope-gdrive
    • unity-scope-gmusicbrowser
    • unity-scope-gourmet
    • unity-scope-guayadeque
    • unity-scope-manpages
    • unity-scope-musicstores
    • unity-scope-musique
    • unity-scope-openclipart
    • unity-scope-texdoc
    • unity-scope-tomboy
    • unity-scope-video-remote
    • unity-scope-virtualbox
    • unity-scope-yelp
    • unity-scope-zotero

  3. Open dconf-editor

Go to >> com >> canonical >> unity >> dash

Set the value :

['home.scope', 'applications.scope', 'files.scope']

After that :

  • Turn off computer

  • Turn on computer

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