Unity's launcher is one of the main access points for applications in Ubuntu. It provides quick access for launching applications and managing running applications.
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Launcher doesn't respond and acts oddly [closed]
I have recently downloaded the 12.04 Ubuntu version and decided to try using Ubuntu after hearing many good things about it. So far, I've been frustrated with the results.
The Unity Launcher doesn't ...
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How do I modify Libre Office launcher's icon right-click menu on Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
Upon right-click Libre Office Unity launcher icon shows only two items: to open Libre Office itself (i.e. its main menu) or to unpin the icon from launcher.
I want Libre Office icon in my Unity bar ...
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Replace ubuntu unity launcher with dock
I know it is possible to disable/move unity launcher in ubuntu 11.10, but what about 13.04? I would like to completely disable unity launcher and use some sort of dock, or move unity launcher to the ...
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Do Desktop launchers use memory when inactive?
In my old Windows XP life, I noticed that each ¨quick launch¨ icon slowed the sum total down. Is this true in linux? Do I have to keep my start buttons in their menus/folders? I have 768 Mb sdram only ...
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Creating a .desktop file for a new application
I just installed the lastest version of UGENE. I works fine but in order to use it, I have to enter the following in the terminal: cd ugene-1.11.5/ then execute ./ugene -ui to launch UGENE GUI.
This ...
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How to creat a Laucher item for terminal command in Unity?
Currently the only way I know how to launch processing in Ubuntu 12.10 is to open a terminal and cd into the folder location and then execute ./processing. How would I add a shortcut for this terminal ...
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What are all these “Untitled Window” icons in launcher and how do I get rid of them?
They just showed up this afternoon.
Currently running applications (off the top of my head):
Chrome
Skype
PHPStorm
Pandora
XChat
Terminal
Dropbox
Conky
Vagrant (1 VM running)
Terminal
I quit ...
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text launcher in gnome classic
How do I create a text based launcher in gnome classic? I want to be able to keyboard shortcut and have a list of apps come up as I type just like gnome 3, unity and windows 7 has.
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Nautilus trash icon sidebar width
When I open nautilus with the Unity launcher the sidebar width is coherent :
but when I open nautilus with the trash icon in the Unity launcher the sidebar width isn't coherent :
If I press F9 ...
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Why this launcher button contains two applications?
Please take a look at this launcher button.
When I hover the mouse on it, it shows the name of LibreOffice Calc.
If I right click on it, it shows two applications,
New Spreadsheet and Terminal
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How can I put a shortcut to nautilus with root privileges in the launcher (ubuntu 12.10)?
I don't want to open the terminal and type sudo nautilus every time I want to visually browse for files. Is there a way of fixing it to the launcher?
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Where is Unity Launcher
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi. It gets installed successfully but now I am only able to see an empty desktop. I could not find any softwares anywhere in home etc, no where. Where are ...
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How to remove the Unity launcher icon by setting its size to zero? [duplicate]
Is there a way (on Ubuntu 12.10) to manually set the launcher icon size to 0 to permanently hide it? I hate the launcher after they removed dodge windows and I'm using Cairo now for my dock.
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Applications in Unity launcher oscillating between maximized and minimized [closed]
I'm having a strange problem here. When I click the minimize button of some applications, it disappears from the screen, as normal, but Unity becomes very slow and the little arrow at the right side ...
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Chrome shows two icons in Unity Launcher
I am a new Ubuntu user. I just installed 12.04. To get Chrome on the Launcher, I clicked the BFB and searched for Chrome, then dragged that icon to the Launcher. However, when I run Chrome, it creates ...
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Is there any way to prevent two or more windows of the same program from merging into one in the Launcher on the left edge of the screen? [duplicate]
Lets say if I have 2 or 3 Firefox windows open. I dont want them to merge into a single icon as it does and shows 3 arrows on the left side of the icon. Instead i want it to show 3 different icons. ...
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Why is my PC so laggy when I use the Unity Launcher instead of Cairo-Dock?
When I use Cairo-Dock (with the unity launcher sidebar hidden) my PC works perfectly, speed wise, but when I unhide the unity launcher it works for a little while (like <20 minutes) but before long ...
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Blank desktop after some installation of driver and software and shell [duplicate]
I'm new in Ubuntu, after install I just follow some video from YouTube that told me 9 things to do after install Ubuntu 12.10. After some installation and the last installation that I made is graphic ...
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How do you move the unity launcher to the bottom of the screen? [duplicate]
I am running 12.10 if it helps. I want to move it to the bottom of the screens so it's easier for me to see as many launchers as possible without having to make the icons too small.
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How do you Get the Unity Launcher to Autohide underneath other windows while not autohiding when all Windows are un-maximised? [duplicate]
That is suppose you have google chrome open or some other program how can we get the unity launcher to autohide when it (the program) is open and maximised but to reappear when it's unmaximised (i.e. ...
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How to switch Launcher to another monitor after installing AMD/ATI Drivers?
I've had a ton of issues after installing the AMD/ATI drivers on 12.10. I had to follow some workarounds to even get my system to boot.
Now that I've got drivers installed and my dual monitors set ...
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Dragging files onto Sublime (or any custom program) in Unity
A while ago, I followed tutorial which told me how to "install" sublime so that it behaved like a standard program, with a unity icon I could lock on the launcher. I also set Sublime so that it was ...
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Skype launcher icon not working
I had to do a fresh install of my OSs, and after downloading all the updates and going up to 12.10 (The disk I had was 12.04), I installed Skype, and it works fine... from the terminal, that is. I ...
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How to change launcher screen on bottom side in ubuntu 12.04?
Actually my ubuntu 12.04 has default behavior is.. Left side Launcher show all icons..
so i want Launcher at bottom side...
So is it possible?
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launcher not coming in screen
Launcher has vanished from my desktop. I can now see only the desktop icon in my screen and right click option gives me usual setting option only.
Please suggest what needs to be checked? Has some ...
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Unity Launcher 'Background' Will not Auto-Hide With Launcher Icons
I recently set my Unity Launcher bar to auto-hide, and to be transparent, using the Compiz Configuration tools (ccsm, in the terminal). I did not use 'Unsettings' to do this, as, for whatever reason, ...
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Hierarchy in Launcher?
Help! My launcher is full! And scrolling through the icons is so painfully slow!
Is there any possibility to apply a hierarchy in the launcher? Some folder-like icon where you can put in a bunch of ...
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How to create my own webapp unity integration?
I'm trying to create some webapps to use with Firefox. I got an tutorial from Canonical (http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/app-developer-cookbook/unity/integrating-tumblr-to-your-desktop/) and I ...
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Touch pad or mouse not working on launcher and top panel
I am using ubuntu 12.04 and everything was working fine but suddenly the top panel and side bar (launcher) has stop responding to mouse or my touch pad. I can bring the dashboard using keyboard ...
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How do I make pinned applications persistent accross sessions
There are several applications that are my standard go to applications that I always want pinned to the launcher, but every time I log out or restart I have to re-pin each application that I use. I ...
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Tips for using Synapse or Gnome-do
I have recently started using Synapse and Gnome-do as the applicaiton launcher on my Ubuntu 12.04.
Do you have any tips related to getting the best out of them?
Launching files and folders and ...
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Perl Library for Unity
Is there a Perl Library for the Unity Launcher? Apparently there needs to be one to be able to write feedback to the launcher (Like Message Counts) but so far I haven't been able to find one. So I am ...
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How does Nautilus automatically create a quicklist of favorite places?
Right clicking the Nautilus icon in the unity side bar brings up first a list of favorite locations, followed by the standard "Open a New Window" command.
The "New Window" command is defined in ...
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There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
I am using Ubuntu since the version 10.04 and found it more friendly as compared to Windows. Right now I am using ' Precise 12.04`. I have created many custom launchers for bash scripts, and never ...
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Configure launcher so that program icons do not stack
I would like the icons in my launcher not to stack by program. If you have 2 terminals open, for example, there is one terminal icon in the launcher with 2 sub-categories.
I would like 2 separate ...
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Graphics driver ruined Ubuntu 12.10?
I installed a driver for the ATI Raedon HD 4000 series, but upon reboot, I found that resolution is considerably smaller, and the launcher and menu bar were gone. I had a few desktop shortcuts, but ...
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The Unity 'Home Folder' launcher quicklist has duplicates. How can I remove them and add new entries?
I added places to my 'Home Folder' quicklist in 11.10, I believe following these instructions and ended up with duplicates once that feature became standard in 12.04. I tried this solution, removing ...
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Fix gear icon in Libreoffice 4 from ppa
I installed libreoffice 4 from the supply debs in their website, because it didn't have unity integration I decided to completely uninstall it.
Today I saw the ppa has libreoffice 4 with support for ...
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How do I customize the home folder launcher in the sidebar?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and for my side bar Home Folder launcher, I want to use different bookmarks. I have my Music, Pictures and Videos on another drive and want the default ones to link to those ...
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Changes in GUI behavior after update
[Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit, Unity 5.18.0]
On Friday morning I installed the recommended software updates, as I always do (list included at the end of this message). The next day, after rebooting, the GUI ...
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“Already Executing”?
In my Ubuntu launcher I have two icons with question marks on them. When I hover my mouse over them they read "Already Executing". What is this and can I remove them? I am an extremely ...
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Location of trash icon in Unity Launcher
After I boot my laptop, I see a 'space' between Workspace Switcher and Trash on the launcher. This is the screenshot:
How do I solve this?
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Conditional program launcher
The problem: I have an external hard drive and sometimes the driver crashes on startup. It does restart after some time. However my torrent client is also in my startup list and all the data is on the ...
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Make active programs appear on top of launcher
Assume we have a program that is not locked to the launcher. We can change the location of the program while it is active but that location will be forgotten after restarting the program.
I think it ...
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Gedit not found on launchbar when I minimize, Ubuntu 12.10.
I updated from 12.04 to 12.10, and when I minimize gedit, it doesn't show up in the launch bar. The only way I'm able to get it back is to open one of the files that has already been opened in gedit.
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How to start two Ubuntu applications in one go?
Lets suppose that there are two binary files, e.g. XXX and YYY, at destination /usr/bin/. I want to start them at once, always! In other words, when I type the name of either of those in unity, I want ...
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Do not show devices on the left panel [duplicate]
I don't want to show the mounted devices on my left panel(launcher, ubuntu 12.04), and I can just run my ubuntu on 2D mode, so the software myunity tell me "Your Ubuntu 12.04 is running in 2D mode. ...
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integrate jar app with desktop + run it with java oracle
Ok, so my problem is this: I have installed Oracle Java according to these instructions, and then ran the latest stable verstion of OmegaT in terminal through this command, and it all went fine. BUT ...
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How can I downgrade my Nvidia drivers?
I just installed the Nvidia 304.51 and it works great, the problem is that now the Unity Launcher doesn't auto-hide. I found this bug report so it seems there isn't a way to fix it. One way to get ...
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Why won't Unity launcher re-appear when all windows closed/minimized?
Why doesn't the Unity launcher re-appear when all windows are closed/minimized? It would be more practical to design it this way rather than having a completely blank desktop, especially for new ...
