Recently, I discovered that, Unity lenses can access Internet to fetch information. Such as Video lens. But I want to disable that feature, since It is no use to me.
Can I disable access to Internet by Unity Video lens? If yes, How?
I have found a solution recently, though not very glorious enough, but it works.
First Open a terminal, go to "/usr/lib/unity-scope-video-remote" by the below command:
cd /usr/lib/unity-scope-video-remote
Disable the "unity-scope-video-remote" file there by this command below:
sudo mv unity-scope-video-remote unity-scope-video-remote.bak
Logout and Login again, to see that the video lens is unable to access the Internet.
Just do the opposite of the above process, Go to "/usr/lib/unity-scope-video-remote" by the command:
cd /usr/lib/unity-scope-video-remote
Re-enable the file by following command:
sudo mv unity-scope-video-remote.bak unity-scope-video-remote
Logout and Login again, to see the effect
In 13.04 the file is in a different directory. Using bash's brace expansion, the command is:
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-lens-video/unity-scope-video-remote{,.bak}
Re-enable the file by following command:
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-lens-video/unity-scope-video-remote{.bak,}
As an alternative to logging in and out just press Alt+F2 and type unity --replace
No, In this procedure, the local videos will always be visible. So, no worry !
