No results showing in dash

[Luke Huxley]

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 and the unity-scope-sshsearch package the Unity SSH search scope does not return any results.

Sanity checks:
* Logged out and in after install
* Checked presence of Sshsearch under "Dash plugins" in the "Applications" dash
* Disabled and enabled the dash plugin via the dash
* .ssh/config file exists and contains valid data

[garnus (garnus)]

Hi,
I found a temporary solution.
Edit as root(sudo):
/usr/share/unity-scopes/sshsearch/unity_sshsearch_daemon.py
Change line 67:
self._config_hosts = [h['host'].lower() for h in c._config if '*' not in h['host']]
to:
self._config_hosts = [h['host'][0].lower() for h in c._config if '*' not in h['host']]

If you have turned online results off you must remove/comment out the folowing lines(line number 98-100):

if self.preferences.props.remote_content_search != Unity.PreferencesManagerRemoteContent.ALL:
   search.emit('finished')
   return

[Jakob Reiter (jakommo)]

Hello,
I upgraded to 13.10 today and not being able to ssh from the dash annoys me.
Tried garnus workaround but still no results (also tried with a newly created user).
Any hints on how to debug this?

[Alfred E. Neumayer (beidl)]

garnus' workaround works for me. This should be fixed and added to the default set of scopes on the desktop. Sysadmins are going to love it.

[Jakob Reiter (jakommo)]

ok, did something wrong before. the workaround is working now for me too.
hope this will be fixed in 14.04, just love this feature.

[Roger (infroger)]

Since the last reponse is 21 months old, I'm adding a note mentioning that this scope still works in 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) after the aforementioned work around, despite apparently not being maintained, and that I loved it.

Adding a diff file containing the workaround and one addition to allow for parameters for the terminal app. For instance, I want the terminals opened with profile "remote", so I added:

TERMINAL_APP = 'gnome-terminal'
TERMINAL_OPT = '--window-with-profile=remote'
TERMINAL_APP_MIMETYPE = 'application/x-desktop'

        if port == SSH_DEFAULT_PORT:
            # don't call with the port option, because the host definition
            # could be from the ~/.ssh/config file
            GLib.spawn_command_line_async('%s %s -e "ssh %s"' % (TERMINAL_APP, TERMINAL_OPT, target))
        else:
            GLib.spawn_command_line_async('%s %s -e "ssh -p %s %s"' % (TERMINAL_APP, TERMINAL_OPT, port, target))