I tried what Da Shroom suggested and it seems that i too have that time- out.
In my situation the application lens never starts. ps -ef | grep unity Shows me 2181 ? 00:00:01 unity-window-de 2371 ? 00:00:00 unity-files-dae 2372 ? 00:00:17 unity-music-dae 2555 ? 00:00:00 unity-musicstor 5042 pts/1 00:00:00 unity 5123 ? 00:00:01 unity-panel-ser (process 5042 is the grep) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872219 Title: Applications lens "disappears" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/872219/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs