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).
2
votes
3answers
8k views
Icons missing from launcher, system settings, folders
Various icons from launcher are missing. The first one is from Home folder menu the second from Terminal the last one from Desktop Switcher. This happened after I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04. I have ...
2
votes
1answer
251 views
Can I put the Ubuntu button on the top panel instead of the launcher?
I'm a long *nix user, anda just upgraded to oneiric and found this HUGE button in the dash. I use a netbook and I don't have much vertical space, for me the other position was way better. So, I was ...
2
votes
2answers
187 views
Left edge mouse hoover doesn't bring up Unity menu when fullscreened
When I have an app full-screened in 11.10, hoovering my mouse on the left edge doesn't bring up Unity menu. I have three 11.10 computers and this is only happening on the dual-screen twin-viewed ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
Eliminate the top “mac-ish” file/edit/view/… menu after installing gnome? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Delete extra toolbar on top of the screen in GNOME fallback mode?
After getting gnome working and the panels moved back to the bottom where it's finally usable again, ...
2
votes
2answers
4k views
3D not working any more after adding xorg-edgers PPA
I updated my perfectly running laptop from 11.04 to 11.10. after the upgrade graphics started to act weird.
It was a heavily modified system, so I thought that was probably the issue.. so I ...
2
votes
1answer
940 views
How to format datetime indicator in Unity's panel to show in two lines?
Is it possible to format datetime indicator in Unity3D to show in two lines?
I tried this:
how-to-customize-indicator-datetime-to-two-line-configuration
But that seems to work only when I run my ...
2
votes
1answer
3k views
Keyboard and touchpad do not work after upgrade
Today I made an update of my ubuntu 11.04 installation. After rebooting the keyboard and touchpad of my asus eeepc do not work anymore. I can only login with the onscreen keyboard. Seems to be a unity ...
2
votes
2answers
7k views
My Unity launcher and panel have disappeared in 11.04, how do I get them to show again? [closed]
Help! Have just downloaded beta1. All I did was open Firefox and now the Unity launcher and panel have disappeared. I'm now having to use the classic version of ubuntu as even after a reboot, Unity ...
1
vote
0answers
27 views
Visual Alerts don't work
When I go to Universal Access -> Hearing tab -> turn Visual Alerts on and try Test Flash with either the option to flash the window title or to flash the entire screen, nothing happens. I'm on 12.10 ...
1
vote
0answers
234 views
Why does Ubuntu 12.04 Unity suddenly blur text and images?
Today after a reboot, Ubuntu blurs text (well, anything that is rendered on screen) whenever focus changes or on any interactions with the desktop.
Example:
Normal good look:
Blurred state:
...
1
vote
0answers
216 views
Why can't I see scrollbars arrows in some windows?
I'm running Unity on Ubuntu 12.10, with overlay scrollbars set to false (this behaviour occurs even with overlay scrollbars purged, so this answer can't help).
As the question's title suggests, some ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Ubuntu 12.10 Unity wont start when I activate Xinerama with 6 screens
I have 2 video cards.
1X HD7850 (main video card)
1X HD6450
I have installed the driver for ATI AMD Beta 12.11 from AMD website
It works very good..
And than, I go in AMD Catalyst Control to ...
1
vote
0answers
60 views
How to disable the activity log for the application lens? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop Unity from remembering search history?
How to clear search history of application search? Every time when I select application lens or press Super+A it ...
1
vote
1answer
791 views
Recent update killed unity 3d launcher
I am scratching my head on this one, a lot of things are still new to me.
I updated 126 packages just now through the update manager, and upon reboot everything works fine except the unity launcher. ...
1
vote
0answers
1k views
Intel GMA 950 doesn't work on Asus eee pc 1000HE
My system info showing my graphics card as unknown in Ubuntu 12.04 and unity works slowly(( I tried to reinstall driver (as advised here), but it's didn't help.
upd: 3 years ago, i install ubuntu ...
1
vote
1answer
309 views
Force rewrite of Gnome-Do summon binding on login because keeps being set to disabled
I was wondering where the gnome-do binding was stored for summon do. I want to rewrite this on login because it keeps getting overwritten when I have it stored as space to disabled.
Where is this ...
1
vote
2answers
3k views
Getting Unity 3D working on legacy Nvidia FX5500 card
I installed the latest Nvidia drivers for my FX5500 card. I understand that the X server version does not officially support this driver or card but was wondering what I can do to get Compiz running. ...
1
vote
0answers
3k views
12.04 failed to load session “gnome-classic”
I don't know why but all of a sudden started to show the following messages:
failed to load session "gnome-classic" When I try to open gnome classic from gnome3
failed to load session "ubuntu" When I ...
1
vote
1answer
629 views
xorg.conf and Unity3D?
For some reason, I cannot seem to use Unity3D with the following xorg.conf file:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" ...
1
vote
1answer
796 views
How can I run a Unity session inside Xephyr?
I can get Xephyr to run single applications within a Xephyr window. How can I run an entire Unity desktop session within a Xephyr window? (Preferably as another user.)
If I use the gtk-xephyr script ...
1
vote
6answers
3k views
Can't search for terminal in Unity dash
I used to be able to search for terminal in 'Dash Home' and brings up terminal. However, this way doesn't work any more. 'Dash Home' does not even let me search for 'terminal'.
One thing, I have my ...
1
vote
2answers
5k views
how to get the unity bar only hide when a window is maximize [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make the launcher hide when dodge windows in 12.04 like in 11.10?
How do I do this? in ubuntu 12.04 it never go away or when a window wasn't maximize it go way ...
1
vote
1answer
393 views
Sound broken after installing updates - no hardware present, but some programs play sound [closed]
My problem: sound has been working great for 2-3 months until 2 days ago, when I installed some recommended updates. After reboot I've got the following issues:
cannot control master volume through ...
1
vote
0answers
110 views
Desktop icons get jumbled up after shutdown [closed]
If I shut down the computer using the actual Shut Down option, when I start it back up, random desktop icons get moved and several of them end up overlapping each other. What's going on here?
1
vote
1answer
368 views
CCSM doesn't work when changing launcher visibility or number of workspaces
The compizconfig setting manager doesn't work on my 11.10 installation of Ubuntu. I've tried setting the launcher panel visibility to "never" and changing the number of workspaces in the virtual box, ...
1
vote
3answers
816 views
How do I set an environment variable in a Unity session?
As a work-around to an issue with ibus, I'm trying to unset the variable $IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE. I have tried placing "unset IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE" in various places including:
.profile
.bashrc
...
1
vote
1answer
243 views
Video tutorials for Unity and Gnome Shell?
I'd like to demonstrate both Unity and Gnome Shell in a tutorial fashion. I remember that prior to the release of Gnome 3.0 the Gnome team released a number of very nice videos highlighting the ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
How do I modify the message notifier widget in the Unity global menu?
I started to ask "What's this not-a-panel panel in Unity, and how do I control it?" but I've at least gotten as far as realizing it is the "global menu".
My global menu has a message notifier widget ...
1
vote
2answers
2k views
Removal of unity-preferences makes launcher not show up
In 11.04 I used the unity-preferences tool (called menu and launcher in the the dash I believe) to set Unity to only reveal when the mouse was moved to the upper corner. I liked this method better as ...
1
vote
0answers
981 views
Random X crashes in Ubuntu 11.04 [closed]
I've been getting random X crashes in Ubuntu 11.04 the last few days. This occurs both at work and at home, i.e. on a Lenovo T series Thinkpad and on an Acer Aspire 58x-series (if memory serves).
...
1
vote
0answers
6k views
Scrollbars missing in Eclipse [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to blacklist an individual application from using overlay-scrollbars?
In their frantic quest for pixel real estate, Unity designers have set their greedy ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
Is there a way to add a window list on the panel in Unity?
Is there a way in Natty with the Unity shell to add a Window List (or, even better, something like Talika) to the top bar? Or, failing that, some sort of appindicator for open windows?
Ultimately, ...
0
votes
1answer
305 views
Unity menus don't display properly
Posted this a while back on the Ubuntu forums, but never got a reply, and I still haven't found a way to fix it myself.
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. Or some reason, menus (File, Edit, ...
0
votes
0answers
62 views
Unity Dash/Lens - Auto-completion based on recent search strings [closed]
Sometimes, I find myself typing the same (or quite similar) search strings inside a Unity Lens. So, I thought whether it's possible for the Lens to remember previous searches, and provide a drop-down ...
0
votes
1answer
422 views
Show USB drives in launcher, but not mounted internal partitions
Well the title pretty much says it all. I have partitions that appear in the launcher when the system mounts them, just like when a USB key is plugged in.
I do not want these mounted internal hard ...
0
votes
2answers
283 views
Unity 3D suddenly no longer working on my Wubi install
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on my hand-built tower (important specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz, 8GB of RAM, NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS with 640 MB of video RAM). It's a bit of a weird setup because I installed ...
0
votes
1answer
663 views
All windows decorations disappear after I maximize any window
When I maximize some of the windows all decorations disappear (by all, I mean on all windows)... Is that common issue on Unity or I'm just unlucky to have some prone to that bug configuration? Anyone ...
0
votes
1answer
372 views
Custom launchers don't work like normal launchers, and allow application switching?
Using gnome-desktop-item-edit, I created a custom launcher for Chrome. When I use the launcher, it doesn't show the arrow next to the icon in the Unity launcher, so any windows I open are ...
0
votes
2answers
1k views
Gbirthday - Is there a way to let it work with Unity [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do you know any birthday reminder alternative to GBirthday?
I use the very useful and small birthday (and more) reminder tool Gbirthday a lot, but it seems not to work ...
0
votes
0answers
2k views
Unity launcher missing, top panel changed colour, no controls on the right hand side of the top panel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I've just installed 11.10 and am having some big problems. After installing updates and programs I wanted I did a ...
0
votes
1answer
385 views
Ring Switcher in Unity
In classic GNOME2 desktop I could install Compiz and customize it with Compiz config settings manager so that clicking on a specific screen location allowed switching between open windows. With Unity ...
0
votes
1answer
5k views
How to remap keyboard shortcuts in Unity Launcher? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: > Can I define keyboard shortcuts using the Super key?
I am aware of how to change the shortcut to focus the Launcher with Compiz Settings Manager, so this is a different ...
0
votes
0answers
8k views
Autohide for “Unity bar” and panel? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Will the Unity launcher auto-hide?
I like to have my system revert to a plain, empty desktop when no windows are open... Does the current version of unity have a setting ...
14
votes
5answers
4k views
No Alt+F2 in Ubuntu Netbook 10.10?
I am stumped. I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 Beta 3 and for some reason I can't get Alt-F2 to do anything. Is this a known bug or am I just not doing the right thing?
11
votes
1answer
1k views
How do you change the search location of the Music Lens?
My music collection is on a separate partition and not under /home/username/Music. How do I get the music lens in Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 to search in a different location?
9
votes
1answer
210 views
Making Unity Dash open with the last used Lens as the active Lens
Especially with no keyboard shortcuts for custom-installed Lenses, I thought it would be nice for the Dash to always open the last used Lens for me (instead of the default Home/Global Lens). Is it ...
9
votes
3answers
3k views
How to show windows only from the current workspace in switcher?
I would like to make the window switcher (typically invoked with Alt-Tab) in Unity to show only windows from the current workspace. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
9
votes
3answers
575 views
How can I switch my current session between Unity, Unity 2D, and Gnome?
If I am currently logged in to Unity, is there a way for me to switch my current session to Unity 2D or Gnome without logging out and in again? I know I can restart Unity by running unity --replace. ...
9
votes
2answers
4k views
After the removal of Ubuntu Classic in 11.10, will I be able to install it once again?
After Ubuntu Classic is removed in 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), will I be able to re-install it?
8
votes
4answers
8k views
Show all open windows in 11.04?
Can someone tell me how I can get an overview of all the open windows? Like htting ctrl+s that shows all the desktops, but for the open applications?
Right now when I hit Alt+Tab it shows quite small ...
