GNOME search not working

After upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04, my gnome search often stopped working.  After Googling the issue, I found that this may be caused by a bad extension.

 

 

 

I then inspected the extensions available.  Instead of disabling all of them, I decided to first disable the ones I could do without.  I identified these three:

• snapd-prompting@canonical.com
• snapd-search-provider@canonical.com
• web-search-provider@ubuntu.com

To disable an extension, use the following command like below:

gnome-extensions disable snapd-prompting@canonical.com 

I has been a while since I disabled them, and the GNOME problem has not happened again.  I guess I found my culprits.

Move Show Apps button to the left

Being a long time Windows users, one thing that bugs me in GNOME is the location of the "Show Applications" button.  When the dock is set to bottom, it is on the right hand side rather the left.  There is no option in setting sto move this the left bottom corner.

After a bit of research, it seems the command below would fix my problem.

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top true

At first, I find it odd as it sets the button to the top rather than to the left.  Then, I remember the default layout of the dock is vertical.  The button was on the bottom.  Now setting the button to the "top" makes a lot of sense as when laying the dock horizontally, the left spot is what it was the "top" position when it was vertical.

Now the fix makes the dock perfect.

Open Tereminal Here

With Konqueror, there is an option to open a terminal window at the current directory. Apparently, the default setting of Naulitus does not have it. However, it can be added through an Add-on script:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal