Unity is Ubuntu's default interface since Ubuntu 11.04. Its main components are the panel (at the top of the screen), the launcher (on the left), and the dash (revealed by clicking the Ubuntu button or tapping the Super or Windows key).
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Arrange icons on unity 2d bar
I can't arrange icons on 2d unity bar. Whenever I'm trying to drag icons whole bar dragged up and down instead! I can only remove and add app icons to bar, but they always added at end, just before ...
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How can number of workspace be set used Unity in Ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]
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How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity?
How can number of workspace be set used Unity in Ubuntu 11.10? Unfortunately, I could not find any ...
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Workspaces don't work on my system
It shows only one workspace when I click on workspaces icon, what should I do?
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How to remove unity and unity-2d? [duplicate]
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How can you remove Unity?
how to uninstall unity in ubuntu 11.04, not disable it
I use gnome-shell, and I do not use unity or unity-2d, so I would like to remove ...
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How to change the new workspace icon to the older icon?
The new "Workspace" icon is very similar the "Terminal" icon and I prefer the older icon. How can I change it?
P.S.: Sorry for my English ;-)
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Is there any easy way in Unity to add shortcuts to the desktop?
In Gnome you can right click a menu item and add to desktop. Can't seem to find a just-as-simple alternative in Unity? Anyone know?
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Unity File Lens Giving Useless or No Results
I just installed Natty fresh on my laptop, and for the purposes of this experiment, I have one file on my system. My Downloads, Documents, Music, etc are all empty, but Pictures contains one file ...
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Unity launcher right click focus
When right clicking an icon in the Unity launcher, the menu comes up but i cant select anything. Its like Unity does not have focus at all.
I have to click somewhere on the desktop and then the right ...
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How to prevent screensaver from locking the screen in Unity
Just upgraded to 11.10 and there is one pretty annoying thing: whenever Unity decides that my laptop was idle for too long, the screen goes black and -- the most annoying part -- locks up.
Thus, two ...
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No Unity 3d option on the login screen
I upgraded my ubuntu to 11.10 on day one but the unity 3d is not there as an option. I have User Defined, Recovery Mode and Ubuntu 2D.
I've done this test /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and all ...
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How to Restore Session Menu to Unity Panel?
For reason(s) yet unknown, the Session Indicator has disappeared from my Unity Panel (ver. 11.10.) Short of reinstalling, is there a way the Session Indicator can be restored, perhaps through a ...
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How to stop nautilus managing desktop in unity
Since 11.10 nautilus shows my Desktop in Unity. As I remember correctly, tthis wasn't in 11.04. How can I disable that?
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How can I prevent certain directories/files from appearing in Unity's dash?
This question may sound similar to the following for which solutions are documented:
How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?
But my problem is that the Dash (in 10.10) not only lists ...
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How to make the unity app search find a manually installed app
I installed the scriptwriting Celtx software following the instructions on their site which had me place it inside of ~/bin/celtx
I can execute it with no problems by running bin/celtx/celtx & ...
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Differences among Weather Indicators
To my knowledge there are two different weather applications with indicators for Unity -- what are the main differences and which one do you prefer over the other and why?
Weather Indicator
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GDM session list borked
I must have done something especially stupid, but I observe the following behavior:
When I start gdm, I see the "Warning: unable to load /etc/gdm/custom.conf: file not found" message.
My GDM ...
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Unity freezes after compiz configuration change [closed]
Well this is a follow-up question regarding Ubuntu 11.04 randomly logs out in middle of use. After some people suggested I re-install I used the beta1 iso to reinstall and upgraded instantly about 3-4 ...
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Cannot restart, reboot, nor shutdown Ubuntu 11.04
I cannot restart, reboot or shut-down my PC using Natty.
Whenever I hit shut-down, restart or in terminal sudo reboot it shows a black screen.
If I should press down the power button for while, it ...
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How do I get custom icon for apps in Unity dash
How do I assign an icon for programs which doesn't have any specific icons ? (ie. vncviewer, rdesktop, etc). Today it appears as a gray icon with question mark on the middle as a default icon in unity ...
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Custom keyboard shortcuts are reset. How can I make them set permanently?
I'm having a problem with both Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 with custom keyboard shorcuts. They are reset after a while (I can't find a pattern but it seems to be when a massive upgrade happens). It happend ...
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How to GPG text on Unity?
Once there was a Gnome-applet in Ubuntu (Seahorse?) which helped me with encryption/decryption of PGP text messages. It was able to encrypt or decrypt the clipboard.
Since Unity I have no idea, how ...
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Why Unity doesn't remember edge bindings settings from Compiz?
I'm very used to use edge bindings in my workflow, but since I've updated to 12.04 Unity forget my edge bindings settings on every new session.
Why it is appening and how to fix it?
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Can I move the workspace switcher icon to the top of the Unity launcher
I would like to move the Workspace switcher icon from the bottom to the top of my Unity dock bar. Is this possible? Drag and drop does not work. Thanks!
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Disable icon background colors in application switcher (ALT-TAB) [duplicate]
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How I turn off backlight around switcher icons
When pressing ALT-TAB, the application switcher appears. You can continue pressing TAB to select the icon of the window ...
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Where does Unity store the chameleonic launcher/dash color?
I would like to use unity's average background color (the color of the launcher) in conky, is there a (configuration) file which contains that color information? Or how could I fetch that?
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Unable to log into Unity 3D session on Ubuntu 12.04 with NVidia graphics card
There has been lots of questions here on how to get Unity 3D working with NVidia graphics cards - I've read many of them, but I've still not been able to figure out a solution to my problem.
My setup
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Applications aren't displayed in dash after upgrading to 12.04 [duplicate]
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Dash search gives no result
I have ubuntu box that has been upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04. After the upgrade one of the users cannot see applications in the dash:
Typing a ...
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Can I assign custom keyboard shortcuts to custom (non-default) unity lenses?
I installed the recoller lense ( http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recoll-lens-full-text-search-unity-lens.html ) and now finally have fulltext search in dash.
File lense is opened with super+F, music ...
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Unity dash completely empty all of a sudden. Howto fix? [duplicate]
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Dash search gives no result
When I open my dash in unity (Ubuntu 11.10 upgraded from 11.04), it looks completely fine. Once I start typing though, all entries vanish and ...
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Sometimes applications stay in the background and have an empty white arrow in the launcher. How do I fix this?
Sometimes an application gets in trouble with unity and then it won't be shown in the foreground anymore. To get to the application I have to minimize all other windows. Alt-tab doesn't bring the app ...
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Disabling vsync in Unity/Mutter/Compiz?
Yesterday I was still using Natty with Compiz. I had noticed that disabling Vsync in Compiz made dragging windows much more smooth and responsive (I don't mind the tearing).
I installed Ocelot this ...
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Application lens installend but missing in dash
I have a very strange problem: the "Applications" lens does not appear in unity dash. The unity-lens-application and unity-places-applications packages are installed, i tried also unity --reset but ...
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Do any Ubuntu-based distributions ship with Unity?
I like distributions like Mint and Pinguy because they include most stuff I want to install out of the box. Are there any such Ubuntu spin-offs that use Unity by default?
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Is there a keyboard shortcut for the indicator area?
There is a bunch of functionality that is available in the Unity system tray (open/show pidgin, show amarok, turn on/off wireless, switch wireless network, etc).
I want to get access to that ...
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How to restore the top panel?
I've upgraded my desktop from Natty To Oneiric.
Now the top panel has wrong theme and some indicators are missing (sound, power, etc.). Also, icons in launchers and on the desktop are missing or ...
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How to make aplications installed in /opt appear in Unity?
Libreoffice 3.4 was installed in /opt and a link to the executable was put in /usr/bin, but Unity search can't find it. Also, if I open Libreoffice Writer, for instance, and ask to keep its icon in ...
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Tomboy notes logged by zeitgeist do not appear in the Unity dash. Why not?
I am able to search my Tomboy notes using Synapse (and using a zeitgeist plugin), after following the instructions here:
How do I get Synapse to search my Tomboy notes? My notes also appear in the ...
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Is there an alternative to compiz?
Can I find a good replacement for compiz? Compiz in 11.04 with unity is laggy
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Freeze at startup: “It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Ubuntu” [closed]
Just after an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and a restart, Ubuntu freeze at startup on a dialog saying: "It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Unity. Please choose Ubuntu ...
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How can I remove the shadows from the unity panel?
Last update brought shadows to the Unity panel - or at least I just noticed them.
I know that I can remove any shadows I want through the Window Decoration plugin in ccsm but grabbing the panel ...
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Will unity performance improve in natty or remain slow?
There are some apps developed by canonical that are way too slow. This are USC and Unity. Unity in 10.10 is insanely slow (compared to GNOME which isn't actually a very fast DE) and totally unusable ...
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unresponsive window imprint on the desktop [closed]
I have an issue where an unresponsive browser tab leaves an imprint on the desktop even after all windows are minimized or closed. To add to the annoyance it stays on top of all the applications and ...
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How to configure the clock date format to ISO 8601?
By default, the time in AM/PM style is shown, I would like to have the same that ls gives:
2013-01-09 01:12
That is 24 hours and ISO 8601. How can I do this?
I am aware of the following question. ...
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unity gone and cannot be reinstalled?
help.unity got uninstalled after I used ppa purge to delete a repository when i use synaptic to install it it says:
`unity:
Depends: libglib2.0-bin but it is not going to be installed
help`
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How to find the .desktop files for pinned applications in the Unity launcher?
I know the desktop files live in
/usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications. I'm looking for 2 information:
Where can I see the desktop items that show in my launcher (I would love to ...
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Unable to install Unity Revamped --ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped
I intend to use a forked version of unity (ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped) over the original one. The problem I'm facing is that the forked version is 5.12.0-0ubuntu3 and the original one is ...
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Unity-like Dashboard for Gnome fallback?
Is there any way I can run the Unity dashboard (or something similar, like Bolt for Gnome 3) in Gnome Fallback?
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How do I configure the default applications on the launcher on a LiveCD?
How can one edit unity bar default apps within a livecd? In other words if you boot ubuntu 12.04 livecd you will see in the unity bar, firefox, libreoffice, Ubuntu software center, etc. Well I need to ...
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Wrong window gets focus when switching workspace
I enjoy using VLC to play video while I do other work.
The VLC window is set to by 'Always on top' and 'Always on visible workspace'.
In former versions of Ubuntu this has worked great. When I ...
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upgraded “Compiz' and ”Unity", now no Unity 3D on screen
Today when I logged in to my Ubuntu 12.04, the update manager told me of some upgrades. Compiz and Unity were in those upgrades.
After I installed the upgrades, I can no longer get the Unity panel ...
