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Aaron Hill
Asked: 2012-08-09 10:06:17 +0800 CST

Unity Applications lens is empty

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I am using Unity on Ubuntu 12.04. For some time now, the Applications lens is completely empty when I open it. If I search for any applications from the Home or Applications lens, no results show up. I have tried killing and launching the Applications lens as suggested at Launchpad, but it did not work. How can I get the applications lens to work again?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In the terminal try 

    unity --reset

    and reboot to see the changes.

    As far as the mentioned bug is concerned ,it was affecting the unity-lens-applications-5.8.0-0ubuntu1 (precise) package and current version stands at unity-lens-applications (5.12.0-0ubuntu1) .

    It also states that fix is released so please update your system , if already up-to-date than ignore this.

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  2. I know this has been fixed for the OP, but I had the same problem and it wasn't solved with the suggestions above. In the end I fixed with:

    rm -r ~/.cache/unity && unity --replace &

    My software centre was also broken and that was fixed with:

    rm -r ~/.cache/software-center

    From other posts I think the two may be connected hence posting both solutions together here for future searchers.

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  3. You can also use the command

     unity --replace

    and you don't need to reboot (more convenient). This command restart both Unity and Compiz and clean all the GUI like if she was restarted.

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  4. I am not sure but I think at least one of the previous fixes changes unity settings, setting them to default settings. This may be necessary, but sometimes just a restart of unity has worked for me. From another askubuntu site I found that typing the following in a terminal will restart unity and recover my lenses:

    unity &> /dev/null & disown
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