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How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature?

How can I disable Amazon search results in the Unity dash?

Where can I find the command line?

A basic question: Where do I find the command line?

There is a lot of information about commands and using the command line, but I'm an absolutely new Ubuntu user: I can't find find the command line.

How to speed up search for locally installed applications in Ubuntu 13.10's Unity Dash?

I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander". After upgrading, whenever I open the Unity Dash to search for an application, it takes at least a minute before it starts to show some result. The new scopes addition has made Dash painfully slow. Is it possible to speed up the Dash's response time?
I have already turned off the "include online search results" option. I can live without internet information on Dash, but cannot stand a slow application menu (which is supposed to be its primary feature)

How to make Unity's Dash save the results filtering?

The dash can remember the settings for filtered results for the entire session, but not beyond that. Once the profile is logged out and back in the results would reset to their original settings; displaying all the results without filtering. How can I make the results filtering more permanent? IE: How to make the photo lens for instance always show photos from "This Computer" and not from Picasa or Facebook across sessions and not just temporarily?

How to change the Dash Button in Unity Launcher?

I don't like the default Dash Button (also known as BFB in short of "Big Freakin Button") in Unity Launcher. It's pretty inconsistent with Faenza icon theme and I would like to change it. How can I do that?

How to disable all scopes, filters and dash plugins?

The Dash is overloading me with stuff I don't need, down to the weather and food recipes (?!) when I'm just looking for a file or app. Also I can't figure out how to set it to include music files without getting results from files I don't even have.

Is there a way to go back to how it worked in 13.04, where the app launcher actually launches apps? (So get rid of ALL the filters, especially results that have nothing to do with my computer.)

It also just doesn't seem to work; I go through the list of filters trying to click everything off, but then I type something to search for and it turns it back on?

How to disable lenses in the in the Dash menu?

How can I disable some lenses in the Dash menu?

How to remove icons/shortcuts from Unity menu?

I have installed Chromium and Tweet Deck on it (trough Chrome Store), now I uninstalled Tweet Deck and after that Chromium, the problem is, when I installed Tweet Deck it asked me if I want to create a shortcut to it and I chose YES. Now that both are uninstalled the Tweet Deck icon still appears on Unity Menu over Internet.

I tried to remove the icon from the menu but I can't figure out how to do this. It should be a simple thing to do, but is giving me headaches :P

What I have to do to remove the shortcut and possible junk files from Chromium?

Also my Ubuntu version is 11.10 x64.

(Sorry if I write something wrong)

The eclipse application icon is huge in Unity's dash

I have a problem with the manual installation of Eclipse Juno. After unpacking the tarball to /opt, adding a symlink from /usr/local/bin and adding the following to a new file /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Eclipse
GenericName=Integrated Development Application
Comment=Eclipse Juno
Exec=/usr/local/bin/eclipse
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;IDE;

I still get this weird behavior from the dash:

Eclipse runs just fine and the icon is clickable but as you can see the size is a bit off. How can i fix this? Shouldn't Unity automatically scale the icon?

Nautilus is very slow

One month ago I updated (no fresh install) to 12.04.

Since then nautilus got extremely slow. When I open a folder that contains many subfolders I sometimes have to wait 4 seconds until everything is displayed. This has never been like that before, in previous versions I could always browse between my files extremely fast.

If I start nautilus with root-rights from a terminal, it does work perfectly.

I looked in "additional drivers" and changed from Nvidia current-version-update to the recommended drivers. This drastically increased the performance and speed of file browsing, unfortunately just for a couple of days. Now I am stuck again with the very slow Nautilus.

I also tried to install the latest nvidia driver like it was suggested here: http://www.techlw.com/2012/03/install-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-1204.html Did not work at all.

Also when using the dash to try to find files it does not respond properly: does not find files or loads for ages until the file is displayed.

I am working on an Acer Notebook with

Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz × 4
6GB RAM
GeForce GT 320M/PCIe/SSE2
64 Bit Ubuntu 12.04

How to make faster first search at Unity-Dash? Way slower than second one

After a reboot, the first search using Unity Dash will be slower (15 sec) than the second search (seems instant), on my system at least. I guess this is because file index is cleared after a reboot and recreated as soon as first Unity Dash search is done.

If this is the case, auto-recreating index at system start-up should work. I could imagine for example automatically running some command at the system startup for gathering info before it is requested by user via Unity search.

I'm interested particularly in searching for programs.

I have disabled online search for better performance while no interest in that.

My current machine configuration:

Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64 on HP 655
Processor: AMD E2-1800 APU (2x 1700 MHz)
Graphics: Radeon HD 7340 driven by xOrg "Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM"
Memory: 4 GB (real 3.6 GB)
HDD: ATA Hitachi HTS54505 

Theoretical benchmarks: CPU, HDD. I will benchmark those myself eventually...

Prevent gnome-shell's dash from listing Recent Items

I am using gnome-shell in Ubuntu 11.10. I am getting annoyed when dash search lists Recent Items. I have tried many ways to prevent it like

• Deleting activity.sqlite and activity.sqlite-journal files under ~/.local/share/zeitgeist

• Adding all the possible entries in Activity Log Manager to prevent application logging

• Specifying time range in Activity Log Manager to forget my activities.

But none of the methods are working. The recent items list is still populated.

Is there any way to tell dash not to list Recent Items while searching, other than the above methods? Or is there any way to delete the recent items list?

How can I enable/disable Dash online results programmatically?

How can I change this setting from a Bash script?

My plan is to enable it only on certain network connections.

How to remove an icon from Unity Dash?

I installed DbVisualize in Ubuntu 12.04. Now I don't want to use it anymore, so I deleted the folder "DBVisualizer" in my Home folder. Problem is I can still see the icon in the Dash.

How could I remove it completely from my system (for other apps too)?

How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?

I sometimes browse erotic media files but I would like to avoid having them appear in files & folders / recent. How can I do that?

The old "making .recently-used.xbel a folder" trick from 10.10 and older doesn't work any more.

Plus I'd prefer to turn off tracking only temporarily.

I also prefer not to use a separate user for this, as switching users sometimes isn't fast enough.