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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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity launcher and status bar dissappeared after installing additional drivers [duplicate]
I have tried to use additional graphics drivers on Lenovo T530 ubuntu 12.10 laptop. Actually those drivers have not installed correctly. After restarting my machine, ubuntu launcher and status bar has ...
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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Unity black and white pixilated screen after suspend resume
Whenever I suspend and resume my laptop I get the following screen (see link to image below). I can do Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to TTY and I can kill and restart Unity but it seems to have no effect when I ...
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Scrollbars arrows disappeared
I'm using 12.10 Unity with old fashioned scrollbars which now have no more arrows up/down or left/right on Nautilus, Terminal, Gedit (it's not the case on Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, Opera...).
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Ubuntu next desktop interface [closed]
When will the Unity Next (8.0) gain desktop features? And when will Mir be able to be used on desktops?
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Get rid of visual bugs for intellij idea under unity
Ubuntu 13.04 i686, Unity
I just cant get rid of this buggy bottom bar, any ideas?
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How to remove Xubuntu notification thingy?
I downloaded Xubuntu to try it on Ubuntu. After uninstalling it using sudo apt-get purge xubuntu-desktop, I found out that even after that when there were pop-up notifications, it would appear in the ...
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Dconf. Can't see “unity panel ”
In Unity section there are "lenses" and "runner" only.
What should I do to enable "panel"?
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What happened to no indexing certain directories?
Ubuntu 13.04 no longer has an option to keep certain folders from being indexed. Why was this removed and how do you reinstate it?
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How to start XBMC instead of Unity
How can I set Ubuntu to start XBMC at login instead of Unity?
I know I can choose between the two interfaces when logging out, but it always goes on to Unity when booting.
Thank you very much!
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Cannot get web-apps working in Ubuntu 12.10
I have been using vanilla Ubuntu 12.10 since it came out, and I will be upgrading to 13.04 in a month or two. However, I recently decided to try to install a couple of web-apps. I was unable to do so, ...
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Unity HUD/Menu loses menu sometimes
Not all the time but intermittently Unity will drop the menu from the HUD. Most often this is with GIMP but it has happened to other programs too. The menu choices are there but the content of the ...
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More extensive Quick list for ubuntu button [closed]
I think the quick list on the ubuntu button needs to be more extensive . EG When i right click on it and up pops the first menu I think that if i right click on a menu item it should bring up ...
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Install latest version of Unity in ubuntu 12.04
Is there anyway I can install the latest Unity (used in Ubuntu 13.04) in Ubuntu 12.04?
I do not want to upgrade my super stable 12.04 just to get the Unity.
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All Panels Dissapeared
Recently installed fglrx. On restarting my PC, all my panels disappeared and Alt+Tab has stopped working.
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my taskbar and unity have disappeared after upgrade to ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I upgraded to 13.04 and now my taskbar and unity are gone. I am glad I know a little bit about terminal because i can use this computer to as questions online. can anyone help me out?
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Nouveau driver on Ubuntu 13.04 freeze and I get nouveau dri failed to idle
Ok so I want to like Unity I really do but this is very annoying with default nouveau driver I get constant gpu lockups and I have to manually reboot. If I install nvidia drivers it doesn't freeze ...
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The dash doesn't agree with software center
Software center shows an application installed.
When I go to the dash and search for that application to open it, it shows up as available for download (not installed).
How do I get the dash and ...
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13.04 GL::FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED on reload unity
since 13.04 Unity freezes a lot more often.
But my real problem is, that if i exiting unity on freeze with STRG+ALT+F1 i can not start unity again. If i type "unity" it seems to try, but haning in a ...
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Is it possible to have just opened apps on top in launcher? If so, how?
I've locked ('pinned') quite some applications to the Unity launcher. When I open a programme (via the Dash), its icon appears at the very bottom of the list. This is very annoying IMHO as it leads to ...
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How to make the top bar menu always visible? [duplicate]
I just recently started working on Ubuntu, coming from OSX.
I work a lot with the computer so I naturally want everything to look and work the way I want it to.
Ubuntu has not let me down yet, but ...
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Oxygen-gtk theme on ubuntu 12.04
I tried to use the oxygen-gtk theme on ubuntu 12.04, but it didn't work properly, only the menus. The windows looked like win95/98 :D
I know that the best way to use that is to use Kubuntu, but I ...
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Unity Music Lens duplicates entries on Ubuntu 12.04
I had been using Clementine and its clementine-scope for a while, but a week ago I decided to switch back to Rhythmbox (better Unity integration, easier to use). The problem is that now the music lens ...
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How do I disable Unity in 13.04?
I'm using Xfce most of the time, but Unity keeps popping up even in my Xfce-Session. So I deactivated the Compiz-Plugin in ccsm, because that worked well in 12.10. But now with 13.04 as soon as I ...
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Error while starting docky
I installed Docky today, and after a little bit of messing around, i closed it from the default launcher that Ubuntu has (i'm on 12.04.2), and after that whenever i click on the docky icon, nothing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 problems with Unity 3d and Ati Radeon Hd 6670
Im running Ubuntu 12.04 in my PC, Intel Dual Core,2.5gb RAM, ATI Radeon HD 6670
I have intalled the driver for my ATI following this tutorial.
The thing is that Unity 3D do not respond, every time ...
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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the ...
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Is there a way to find the executable name for an application so I can launch it in a terminal?
Is there a way to find the package/executable name (for example, evince for document viewer, or totem for Videos) for an app?
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How to open window centered in unity desktop Ubuntu 13.04
Is there a way to open and/or set programs in the center of the desktop in Unity?
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Raring Drag and Drop Threshold removed - how to set it
Much to my annoyance, the drag and drop threshold has been removed in 13.04 from the mouse desktop settings.
I find myself dragging and dropping now when I had no intention of doing so. This just ...
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How to drag and drop upload files into Filezilla in Unity?
I am web developer, using Ubuntu 13.04. I frequently need to upload files from different directories to FTP.
How can I drag and drop upload files to the Filezilla icon in the Unity launcher?
I know ...
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Unity Tweak Tool, crashes, freezing
Not many issues with ubuntu 13.04 other than currently trying to edit unity in tweak tools, it constantly crashes (This along with doing pretty much more than 1 process at any given time, though 1 ...
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Disabled expo plugin and my Deskstop disappeared [duplicate]
I have disabled the expo plugin by ignoring the warning but now everything is gone from my desktop. There is no menu on the top or no sidebar. I am using commandline to open firefox and all. And also ...
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Major Console Bug! No fix anywhere on google?
Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6 consoles are not working for me. The only thing it's bringing up is a black screen (Nothing can be typed or done whatsoever at all). It has done this since ubuntu 12.04? (I don't ...
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Appearance Icon is still missing from system settings
I am using 13.04 - just upgraded today. I checked in Synaptic and both gnome-control-center-signon and gnome-control-center-unity are installed. In ccsm the Unity Plug-In is enabled. I completely ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 & Ehanced Desktop Zoom
With The new release of Ubuntu 13.04. Does the sidebar and top bar enlarge now when you zoom in using the Compiz enhanced desktop zoom. I saw that the new version uses Unity 7 so I'm really hoping the ...
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Java application from JNLP file window size issue
I have been evaluating using Ubuntu in our school as an alternative to Windows for our student machines. Everything ahs been going well so far, but I have run into an odd little problem that I can't ...
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In settings menu “Background” entry appears rather than “Appearance”
"Appearance" still appears in the dash but opening it only opens system settings. I have a feeling this problem is related to this one
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Select monitor for indicator information
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on a computer with two monitors. The indicators are visible in the upper right corner of both monitors, but if an indicator has notifications to show (such as the arrival of ...
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Tray Icons in Unity in 13.04
In Ubuntu 13.04 there is no Tray Icon and Whiteliting is removed.
I Installed Gnome 3.8 but there is no tray there too!!
How can I get tray icons back (for applications that put icon in tray like ...
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Toggle Transparency
I am using 13.04 and am missing the toggle transparency feature which was available through the compiz settings manager in the accessibility section under 'opacity, brightness and saturation'. It ...
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How to make ubuntu black and white?
This might be a somewhat strange question.
I had an argument with a windows person and I told him that linux is so much more customization then he told me to prove it and I told him .....
Now I need ...
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Running games in windowed mode
I have problems with mouse behavior when I run game in windowed mode. I can't use alt + left click and alt + right click in game since first moves window and seconds opens popup with window options.
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Unity Black Background
I am using ubuntu 13.04 64bit version. I've installed cinnamon along with unity. When i switch between Cinnamon and unity, face a peculiar issue. Desktop background is forced to be black and unable to ...
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How can I make Dash search unopened files in Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
One of the things that I can't seem to work out is how to do a full search of my documents in Ubuntu 13.04. The way it is now is that the search results from the dash seem quite random.
Ideally, I ...
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Merge two different icons theme in Ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 and I installed 2 icon themes: Faenza-Radiance and Myelementary. I want to use Myelementary icon theme as main one and Faenza-Radiance icon theme on top system panel. How can I ...
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Eclipse loses focus after switching workspace
This might be related to this question.
I am Using Ubuntu 13.04 and Eclipse Juno Service Release 2.
I use Eclipse with some Eclipse's Views(panes) detached from the main window, because I have two ...
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Cinnamon stops working on ubuntu 13.04
I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and cinnamon stops working.
When I load cinnamon it only displays a slow responding cursor over a black screen. And the desktop never loads.
So (for getting access to ...
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gedit opens different window though it should not
It's a follow-up of Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus? On Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity:
I double click on a text file on the desktop or through Nautilus. ...
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Rdio Quicklists
I would like to have "Play/Pause" "Next" and "Previous" buttons in the quicklist for my Rdio.desktop "web app."
Detailed Explanation
The web app can be created either from Chrome (by going to menu ...
