Questions tagged [unity]
For questions regarding the Unity desktop environment, including configuring and using Unity. Unity has been the default Ubuntu desktop environment from Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 17.04.
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ubuntu 16.04 No Dash, no Launcher, no titlebar
No Dash, no Launcher, no titlebar. Can open terminal by right click desktop, but cannot move the window. Exsiting answers in [Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears have been tried, but ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 -- some applications constantly freezing for a few seconds
I just upgraded my hardware and software: moved from an AMD FX-8500 running Ubuntu 14.04 to a Ryzen 7 2700 with 32GB and a Samsung 970 EVO+ M2 drive. I have a 4K monitor (3840 x 2160), with an ...
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Unity problem in Ubuntu 16.04 after update
After recent update my unity looks strange: background is black and I can't change it (but in my conky i can see part of it), i can't see highlighted text, everything is with white background (even ...
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Newbie question. KDE tries to load the main taskbar, after which disappears, after which cannot draw on the screen
Making my first steps in moving to Linux, and with a Linux book in my hands, trying to learn how properly work with it (currently through VirtualBox).
Trying to change the Window manager of Ubuntu 18....
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Do not go to full screen application when switching back to workspace
Workspace 1: Youtube on full screen. Terminal window in front of it (relatively transparent so I can see through it).
Workspace 2: Another browser open.
I am in Workspace one, with the terminal in ...
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Unity can not start a terminal
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 client which is member of an active directory domain. Login works, starting applications like firefox or thunderbird works, everything is fine. Except the terminal: I cannot ...
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Top bar too small, chrome and firefox render mismatch
I consider myself a n00b in Linux and have recently moved to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I have integrated Intel graphics on my machine. My Ubuntu top-bar and its fonts are extremely small when compared to ...
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Execute shell on a relative path on ubuntu launcher
I've created this launcher that executes a shell:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Exec=/full/path/server.sh
Name=MServer
Comment=foo
Icon=gnome-sudoku
I need it to execute ...
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How to remove shortcut directory bookmarks in homes creen?
How can I remove shortcut directory bookmarks in home screen ?
I follow the steps here and "Contrato Carlos" was not there to be removed.
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Unity LightDM background and gnome "lockscreen"
I've recently added Gnome3.18 in my Ubuntu 16.04, but I decided to keep with lightdm-unity-greeter, for some reason it uses my background picture in the login screen instead of my "lock screen" ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 unity: No text is shown in many windows
I hibernated my laptop a few times.
I closed the lid and reopened it.
This is what happened:
I cannot see anything but I can enter commands.
This is the nautilus window:
How can I fix this problem ...
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Uninstall multiple files fro Ubuntu at one go which get istalled by mistake
I was playing with my Ubuntu 18.04 (which I shouldn't ideally). I mistakenly installed unity tweak tool and it brings a lot of junk. I want to get rid of all that junk. In my app tray, I am getting ...
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some ubuntu apps won't start, fails with error message
whenever i try to open software updater, terminal, or IDLE i get a message saying "failed to launch 'whatever program' then under that it says " failed to execute child process /usr/bin/'whatever ...
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Can't boot after lubuntu-desktop environment
I have two problems.
Problem 1 : My old laptop is running Ubuntu 18.04 (Unity). I was trying other desktop environments like Gnome yesterday, and I wanted to try Lubuntu, so I installed it using this ...
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Various services (Terminal, gnome-disks, TTY) won't launch until I log out / back in
Like this guy I have lost the ability to use several core Ubuntu apps - most notably, terminal and gnome-disks. When I try to launch them, I get a spinner for a few seconds and sometimes an entry in ...
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How to keep volume popup from showing when volume isn't changed?
The volume popup shows every 20 seconds or so. Sometimes it flickers a bit. How do I disable that?
I tried to unbind the Volume Up and Volume Down keyboard shortcuts, that didn't fix it.
This ...
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Additional question mark icon in Launcher when launching an app, and then the original disappears
I when I try to open Okular which I've installed using flatpak, I see these two icons in my launcher:
After a while the Okular icon disappears and only the question mark one remains. What could be ...
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Ubuntu 16: Menu Bar and Dash do not appear for users
We have a cluster of Ubuntu 16 LTS machines that authenticate off of LDAP and have their home directories in a separate filer. Users can log into the terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and can also log into the ...
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Sidebar and dash missing - I can't find the tilde button
I've seen others with the same issue that I am having and I see a potential solution however for some reason in the process my keyboard has changed configuration and the @ Button is no longer shift+2 ...
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Any skeuomorphic/non-flat themes for Ubuntu? (Unity)
I don't know whether a similar question has been asked already, however I am trying to create a custom Ubuntu distribution based on Ubuntu 18.10 while running the Unity desktop environment, not GNOME.
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Sometime when accessing a menu: "Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error"
Sometime, when I try to access some menu (may be inside an application or desktop, doesn't matter), I got the following error. The menu and submenu disappear for a while. After that, I can continue ...
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Delete Ubuntu Desktop With Applications Ubuntu 18.04
I want to delete the ubuntu desktop components including the applications, e.c.t. I want to replace it completely wiht the unity desktop, exept That I want just the applications that come wiht unity ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 wont login
I have tried this
Method1:
sudo apt-get purge lightdm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Method2:
ls -ld /tmp
Check for the first 10 letters in the left: ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 unity has problems with icons and top panel after installing mate-desktop
I install mate desktop on Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon
Then I uninstall mate
sudo apt-get remove mate-core mate-desktop-environment ...
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Disable Splash/Welcome screen when in screensaver mode
My question is how to disable the splash (welcome) screen once in screen saver mode?
I have disabled the lock screen in settings, and Ubuntu does not require my password any longer when in ...
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Removing 'Kubuntu-desktop' has made media keys practically non-responsive but only on Unity Desktop
After uninstalling the package 'Kubuntu-desktop' my media keys no longer work, but only specifically in the Unity Desktop. They work flawlessly in Gnome, Enlightenment and KDE but when used on the ...
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Error recompiling Unity: The X server was not able to run in time
I'm attempting to disable built-in multi-touch gestures in Unity in Ubuntu 16. Apparently, this requires editing Unity source code. I came across this post explaining how: https://askubuntu.com/a/...
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Error: schema com.canonical.notify-osd not installed
I installed unity-tweak-tool
gaowei@alpha:~$ which unity-tweak-tool
/usr/bin/unity-tweak-tool
When I try to run, it prompts
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UnityTweakTool/__init__.py:40: PyGIWarning:...
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How to get rid of this UI "feature"/bug(without rebooting)?
Please look at this strange border - I have Firefox opened, as usual, but after pressing some keys a strange border appeared(can be seen between the dash icon and the google logo, overlapping the ...
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Show text file contents on it's icon
I have Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity desktop environment.
Is there a way to display text file contents on it's icon on the desktop?
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My changes to com.canonical.unity-greeter file won't take effect
I've installed lightdm and messed around with my login screen settings, but now that I want to use the standard 16.04 login screen(minus the dot-grid) the changes won't take effect.
unity-greeter ...
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"Displays" app crashes even before opening
I am trying to reposition my external monitor in the Displays app. But as soon as I select the app in Search Your Computer, a loading icon shows up for a few seconds and then nothing shows up. I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 default theme loads first before my custome theme
On startup the login screen will be purple instead of my wallpaper and after login the panel color and launcher as well as the wallpaper will be the default purple theme for a second until it loads my ...
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VLC 3.0.4 fullscreen bug (Ubuntu 18.04)
Ever since the last VLC update, I have this problem. I am using Ubuntu 18.04. In fullscreen, besides the video, VLC also shows Unity launcher (side bar) and the Ubuntu top bar (see the screenshot).
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ubuntu 18.04 Untrusted application launcher
I have some starters in a folder and When I double click on them, I get the message "Untrusted application launcher". If I click on "Trust and Launch" the program execute but is NEVER TRUSTED !!
I ...
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Unity 7 with Ubuntu 18.04
When I create a starter file, unity does not display the icon with the name
Is it because of Unity or Ubuntu with gnome?
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ubuntu 14 corrupt desktop
I've done quite a bit of poking around and trying to solve my problem. Usually I can manage but nothing seems to be working.
My wife's PC is running Ubuntu 14. Her desktop has become corrupt. The ...
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Input Problems After Upgrading to Ubuntu 18
I've upgraded from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18 (with Unity GUI) and I have a lot of problems. Most annoyingly is that Super+Space (or Shift+Super+Space) no longer switches the input source (despite being ...
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ubuntu 16.04, purple screen after reboot
I was following https://carla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/carla_headless/, and tried some commands there, and installed VGL, TurboVNC,etc.
I usually work on my vnc window, but I sometimes work on the ...
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Is there anything like Unity's "lenses" in GNOME 3?
The lenses were the best things in Ubuntu's history in my opinion. Is there any possibility to get this with a new distro?
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Skip from alt-tab list
I have created my own GUI program (that only takes up a small fraction of the screen space) whose use is such that it should "always be on top" (if I have a terminal, Firefox, GIMP and my program open,...
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After upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04, I cannot run terminal and many apps don't load
Having run 16.04 happily, I thought I would try an upgrade to 18.04. This went fairly smoothly.
However, now I notice many issues, which are stopping the system working well. One main one is that when ...
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Extra monitors not detected after replugging in docking station
I am using Lenovo P50 Thinkpad with 2 extra monitors in my office. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with unity display manager. When I go for meeting, I take my laptop along with me. When I come back and ...
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Uninstall old Qt Creator, keep the new one
When I execute Qt Creator from the Unity dash (Ubuntu 16.04) I find 2 versions of Qt Creator (I installed both of them):
Qt Creator 3.5.1 based on Qt 5.5.1
Qt creator (community) 4.7.1 based on Qt 5....
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Launcher position fixed to left
Whenever I try to set the launcher position to bottom, nothing happens. In both dconf editor and the terminal I have set the launcher-position as "Bottom" with no results.
In terminal this is the ...
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xserver-xorg-core2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.8 Crash with SIGABRT in OsAbort()
How do I fix Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error on a Toshiba Satellite T135 13.3" laptop with Intel X4500M Integrated Graphics? I tried restarting the computer as advised, where I got this ...
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Why is my screen only showing the wallpaper (Dual boot with Chrome OS)?
I followed the instructions on the official Ubuntu page for dual booting chrome OS (on a chromebook) and Ubuntu, but going onto Ubuntu, all I see is the wallpaper. Isn’t there supposed to be a top bar,...
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Immediate logoff after login on Ubuntu 16.04
I try to quickly summarize the problem and what happened (details about system are below). I know there exist many similar questions however none of the answers did help in my case. I did not fiddle ...
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Disappearing Unity Launch Bar Icons
Beginning last week, possibly due to an update, individual app icons disappear from the Unity launch bar when I close them. They reappear after a reboot. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I can provide no ...
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problems after upgrading ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS
So i upgraded my Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 through update center and everything went fine.
In the log in screen i am allowed to choose the GUI i want to use - e.g. unity, ubuntu, ubuntu on wayland, ...
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