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Asked: 2012-03-16 10:43:13 +0800 CST

Can't search for terminal in Unity dash

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I used to be able to search for terminal in 'Dash Home' and brings up terminal. However, this way doesn't work any more. 'Dash Home' does not even let me search for 'terminal'.

One thing, I have my home directory on a NTFS partition and shared with a Windows 7 dual boot. I don't know if Windows 7 caused the trouble.

Is there anyway I can get back 'terminal'? Without terminal, life is miserable.

command-line unity unity-dash

9 Answers

    1. Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to bring up the terminal.
    2. Right-click the Terminal icon in the Unity bar and select Keep in launcher.
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  2. This worked for me:

    1. Press CtrlAltT to bring up the terminal

    2. Enter command:

      unity --reset-icons

      into the terminal and press enter. Your screen will flash for a second, but it will come back and work.

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  3. The issue you have is not related to Terminal. The issue is your Unity interface. To fix the issue try the following:

    1) Launch Ubuntu Software Center.

    2) Do a search for Unity.

    3) Click where it says Interface designed for efficiency of space and interaction.

    4) Then click More Info.

    5) Then make sure that all the options are checked except CompizConfigSettings Manager.

    6) Then scroll back up and apply the changes.

    7) Restart your computer and try searching Terminal again.

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  4. Hold the Super key (Windows logo key) and it will bring "search" dash home. Typing terminal there will bring the terminal icon.

    Alt+F2 brings the special run command. If you type a folder name, it will find it in nautilus, for example.

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  5. if any of the above things not helped you means , you lost your terminal completely . so you have to reinstall it .Open your software-center and in the search box type terminal and install it from there.

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  6. It has been my experience that the more comfortable with the Command Line Interface (CLI) that I grow I find myself using keyboard short cuts to work smarter, not harder. Without a doubt I would use the 'CTRL+ALT' plus 'T' to call up the terminal.

    Also something that I found to be interesting is that when you call up the terminal you can simply type 'firefox' to bring up your Internet or you can type 'firefox google' to bring up Google specifically.

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  7. Maybe a unity --reset would solve the problem… But you will loose some of your costumization… I did it once and it solved some problems…

    Edit: As of 13.04, unity reset is deprecated. See here for resetting Unity: How do I reset my Unity configuration?

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  8. Had this problem myself and I fixed it by:

    1. From the DASH / Unity program, move the mouse down to the grey bar of icons at the bottom of the screen:

      enter image description here

    2. Click on the second from the left, (the capital A with a ruler across it)

    3. Scroll completely to the end of the list to "Applications". It has the same symbol of the A crossed with a ruler.

    4. Then click "Enable", then click the mouse in an empty area of the screen to return to the main DASH menu.

      You should now be able to access the Terminal from DASH again!

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  9. I had this problem ... here's what fixed it for me:

    I went to Dash and then clicked the Filter Applications link in the top right.

    I found that, for some reason, the Applications filter had become unselected. I selected it and was able to use Dash to search for Terminal again.

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