Tips and Tricks for Unity

Question

We have the new Unity shell in Ubuntu, what are the fun new stuff we need to know or look forward to?

Answer 1

Getting Started

• Homepage
• Hardware Requirements
• What's New (Official)

• Online Tour (Official)

• Rick Spencer’s Getting Started(This is a great beginner guide, start here)

• OMG!Ubuntu's Guide to Unity
• Rick Spencer’s Video Guide
• Jorge’s Video Guide to the Dash
• Jorge’s Video Guide to Multitasking

Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

• What’s the right terminology for Unity’s UI elements?
• How can I configure Unity?
• Unity Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts
• Does Unity support disabling the global application menu?
• How do I reset my Unity configuration?
• How do I turn on Unity drag handles?

Launcher and Quick Lists

• What are the custom launchers created for Unity?
• How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity
• How do I make a custom launcher for terminal applications?
• How to add my favorite places as a quicklist in my home’s icon in Unity?
• How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?
• How do I add a static quicklist that opens a web page?
• How do I put a web application on the Launcher?
• Launcher icon to share files with Dropbox - drag and drop
• Drag and drop imageshack uploader
• Show desktop icon for the launcher

Indicators and notification area

• How do I access the system tray?
• What happened to the weather-app in the panel?
• List of application indicators

Lenses

• What exactly is a “lens”?
• What Lenses are available?
• 5 neat Unity lenses in development
• Unity Lens Documentation
• How do I install the Reddit Unity Lens?
• How do I install the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens, and how do I use it?
• How do I install the Books Lens, and how do I use it?

Task Switcher

• How to show windows only from the current workspace in switcher?
• Video on how to use the task switcher.

Developers

For application developers

• Launcher API
• All API Documentation
• What is nux and what’s it used for?

Contributing to Unity

• Get Involved
• How do I build Unity from source?
• Unity Architecture
• Bitesize Bugs (getting started bits of code)
• Coding Style
• Unity’s development visualized
• I’m a Unity developer ask me anything
• We're the Unity Development team, as us anything.