I am using Ubuntu 15.10

Can I rebind the Super+C (search photos) shortcut somehow? I uninstalled the photo lens, but the Launcher keeps opening with "Search photos".

The way described here:

Disable "Search Photos" Lens shortcut (Super+C) and Assign to Shutter

does not work because there is no /usr/share/unity/lenses/photos/photos.lens file. Can the shortcut be changed somewhere else or is it hard coded?

2 Answers

The answer was to delete the Super key binding, which is used to open the dash. I think the search lens is bound to <whatever opens the dash>+C so that did it.

Apparently in Ubuntu 16, the lens files /usr/share/unity/lenses/*/*.lens have been moved, and are now called scopes: /usr/share/unity/scopes/*.scope. Especially, the file one can modify to remove the Super+c shortcut is:

/usr/share/unity/scopes/photos.scope

You can list all scope files assigning shortcuts with the command:

grep -i 'Shortcut=' -R '/usr/share/unity/scopes/'

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