Unity Applications lens is empty

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 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.

Solution 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.