Not long ago, Ubuntu added to their dash the feature of being able to show search results from different online sources, which can be either really useful or really fucking annoying, mostly because it slows down your search time, clutter your searches with random products and media, and also sends your searches to a web server owned by canonical, which some people might not like, but there is a way that we can disable this feature and make dash searches cleaner and faster. The first thing that we need to do is open the system settings, it should be located at the left side of the screen, with the icon of a big gear. The system settings can be also found in the dash or in the small gear icon located at the top right side of the screen. When you have it open, you are going to click the icon that is called "Security & Privacy". The security and privacy settings were added not long ago to please the demands of people to be able to make their system more secure, there are not many options here, but the ones that are there are pretty useful. We want to click the tab that says "Search". Now we are in the search tab, here its the only setting that allows web search to be included in your dash. Disable that setting by clicking the icon that says "ON". Close the window and now search on your dash and you will see that there are no more web results when we try to search for something on the dash. Search will only include applications in your system as well as folder and files. Now your Linux experience should be improved by at least 10%, the dash can be pretty useful for launching files, folder and applications. You can just press the Windows key, type the name of the application that you want to open, complete or not and then press enter. This can save you a shitload of time when you are doing anything. If you liked this post, make sure to share with with a Linux novice in need, also if you have question, leave them in the comments down below or go to the contact tab and contact me directly.
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3/13/2015 10:16:46 am
Good , this is what I was looking for my friend has finally solved the problem .
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3/13/2015 12:27:04 pm
Most new people do not know how to solve that problem actually.
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