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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no window borders, can't see Unity, uninstall Mint skin
I have no windows borders. It is probably a compiz fusion issue. But I don't know how to uninstall that.
I can't see Unity, it worked in 12.04 but not on 12.10 or 13.04. And I want to uninstall the ...
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Setting LightDM background from command-line without Unity
When I'm running Unity, I can set the background image with the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$file". This also changes the background of the ...
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How do you change the Dash icon in 13.04? [duplicate]
Now I ask this and I consider it distinct in that the related question How to change the Dash icon in the Unity Launcher? is about old ubuntu versions like 11.10 this one is specifically for 13.04.
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Lost my Unity GUI on upgrade [duplicate]
So I just upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and when I boot into Unity, it has no GUI and I can only see my desktop background (no menus at all). I then upgraded to 13.04 and had the same problem. However, ...
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13.04, 12.10, 12.04 NVIDIA drivers do not work whatsoever
I have been using (or trying to use) Ubuntu for a while now. I cannot for the life of me get any proprietary NVIDIA drivers to work in 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04. I've tried every method posted on these ...
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Where do running applications go?
When I execute an application that is not in the laucher, when I change of app then it is impossible to recover it.
But it is running in process monitor.
How do we recover them?
For example, ...
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How to make my desktop file appear as an application only?
I wrote a desktop file - /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=gksudo -k -u root /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Icon=eclipse
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Minimized windows to appear as “half-icons” in hidden launcher
I was wondering if there is a way of having the minimized windows displayed in launcher as "half icons"?
Something like this:
but for all applications.
I like to have the launcher hidden most of ...
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Background not showing/blank [13.04] [closed]
I have recently upgraded to 13.04 (beta) and my background only shows white. I've even tried installing a background manager, but the results are the same. So I assume this is a Unity (or compiz) ...
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Why do I get “Unity not supported” error message on Ubuntu 12.04? [closed]
I can't access Unity in Ubuntu 12.04. I just get this message:
Unity is not supported on this Guest operating system.
Any pointers?
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nVidia Driver and optimus [duplicate]
i have an asus K53DS Laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 and windows 7, with an intel hd 3000 and and nVidia 610M. I have tried both the additional drivers utility and sudo apt-get install nvidia-current. ...
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Can I prevent title bar going blank on non-active full-screen app? (multiple monitors)
Eclipse displays the full path to the selected file in its titlebar, for example, "Java - product/src/com/whatever/Widget.java - Eclipse Platform". When I switch to another window, this disappears. ...
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How install Unity 5.20.0? [duplicate]
Recently was release Unity 5.20.0. https://launchpad.net/unity
I am using 12.04.2 LTS with Unity 5.18, and I want to install new version of Unity.
How Can I do it?
What are the steps for compile ...
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“Change wallpaper” option doesn't work
I have installed Ubuntu-GNOME then installed Unity desktop and I can't change my wallpaper! When I click on the option, the one thing that appears is the system settings window, without the option to ...
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Is there any way to get proper Unity WebApps integration in Firefox?
In Chromium, if I open, say, Facebook as a webapp, the window that appears has no url, tabs, nor bookmarks bar -- making it a web app rather than just a browser window. However, if I do the same ...
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How do I turn on workspaces? [duplicate]
I am not able to find the workspace button that i have always soon in the other ubuntu versions, how do I turn it on?
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Unity Freezes when pressing Control-S in a program
I don't really know where to start but this is sequence:
I press Control S in Geany / Libre Office, etc.
Suddenly, I loose tob bar and side bar. I can't select anything. Keybinds don't respond. I ...
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Faience GTK theme breaks tabs
I installed this theme in my Ubuntu 12.04 + Unity and all tabs are definitively wrong:
Any idea to make this theme work properly?
Thanks.
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“Unable to load session 'ubuntu'” in 12.04
I removed Unity via the Software Store and rebooted.
Now I got the following error:
unable to load session 'ubuntu'
I can't log in as guest either.
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No title bar, window bored or unity launcher in 12.10 after xrandr
-hey guys, need some serious help.
Yesterday I was playing around with xrandr to try to get an HDMI TV to work properly without having over scan/ under scan as I have an Intel graphic chip and could ...
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Unity session freezes and UI disappears on login
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 with lightdm as my default display manager, with the default session set to ubuntu. After logging in through the standard greeter, unity starts up, and looks fine for roughly ...
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unable to monitor my network switch through nagios
i have configure nagios to monitor switch and it also shows 0 warning and 0 error.
But switch not shown in host group.
please help me
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Unity WebPlayer - BSGO [duplicate]
I switched from windows to linux. I'm currenty running on the latest release of ubuntu. Long ago, I played a game called "Battle Star Galactica Online" and in order to play BSGO It requires the unity ...
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Unity not starting in 3d anymore
I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
It was all working fine.
But all of sudden Unity is now using 2d emulation mode.
In the logfile (.xsession-errors) this line is found:
Info: Unity is not supported by your ...
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Unity Mail. How can I open a new message by clicking on it?
How to make unity-mail to open new massages by clicking on it?
I mean not opening the GMail page, but open the message.
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Is there an “open this in another desktop” option? [duplicate]
I usually work with 2 documents open at the same time, plus the browser and the file manager. I'm a bit frustrated by having to move them to an empty desktop.
I start opening the browser. Then I have ...
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How to open the Expo Mode with <Super>, and the Unity Launcher with <Super+S> in Reverse?
I want to swap the Keyboard combination for Ubuntu such that:
I can launch Expo Mode with
I can launch Unity Launcher with
Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this? I tried launching ...
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Desktop Switcher like MacOS or PearOS 7?
I saw the Desktop Switcher in PearOS like this:
Can I have the same in my Ubuntu 12.04? I installed a PearOS, but I find no name to this Desktop Switcher.
Thank for help.
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Remmina's full screen toolbar disappeared permminatly
I'm using remmina to connect to a few windows servers using RDP. I'm on a dual monitor system, and remmina is always full screen on one. I'm also using multiple Workspaces and switch between them.
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Unity/GNOME/GTK3 & Other Desktop Issues
Well, it's been about a week, and i'm quite frustrated. I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop, and i've run into more than a few problems along the way.
First, it began with having ...
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Unity lost almost all shortcuts
I have a Dell latitude E6530 laptop with NVidia video card that was working fine with the default video driver.
After a normal package update (~1 week ago) and a restart, boot resulted in a blank ...
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Is there a plugin to make unitys workspace and window management like gnomes?
I love the window and workspace management of gnome 3 (I don't know how it works in Gnome 2), but because of other advantages I'd rather use unity.
To be more specific: I want the windows of the ...
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how i can go back to the original theme
yesterday i updated my Ubuntu from the updater and when it finished it required to restart after the restart the theme turn to gray and all the programs have no icons or fonts
is there any way to go ...
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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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I'm seeing glitches in Unity 6.12 [closed]
Ubuntu Version : 13.04 Daily Build (amd64)
VGA : Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family
Unity Dash flashes when I try to use it.
It's doesn't get rendered properly either.
My screen turns into ash ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity not starting after 11/04 update
After this Thursday updates when I login to my account Unity wont start anymore.
I have a pic of the how the system starts:
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2822/screenshotfrom201304131.png
And ...
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NVIDIA GT430M LE on Sony SVS13 not working on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm having some trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work properly on Ubuntu 12.10. My pc is a sony svs13 that comes with an integrated intel HD graphics and a dedicated Nvidia GT 430M LE. I have ...
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Can I make the task switcher icons bigger in 12.04?
Perhaps just because it's jarring moving between my Mac laptop and my desktop, I'd like to have larger icons in the task switcher that appears when using alt-tab. I'm running 12.04 with Unity. I don't ...
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Settings Manager not working
Most of the settings in the Settings Manager have no effect. For example, I'll go into 'Mouse and Touchpad', then 'Mouse', and enable two-finger scrolling, but the settings don't actually change. If I ...
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Panel, launcher, etc disappear? Upgrading is also difficult. [duplicate]
This is sort of a two-part question.
I started off in 12.04 and decided to upgrade to 13.04 beta last week. There were some errors during that process that seemed to do with it thinking there was no ...
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gvim doesn't show up in unity apps menu
if i enter "vim" in unity search (after pressing Super key") nothing shows up.
I can only start gvim by using Alt+F2 and entering gvim. Why does this happen?
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Ubuntu 12.10 taskbar menu not showing
When I hover the mouse other the top left corner of the taskbar in ubuntu 12.10, I don't get any menu anymore. Before I used to get File,... Can you please tell me how to get it back?
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13.04 login: lagging after password entry for several seconds [duplicate]
When I login to my Ubuntu 13.04 beta2 (std Unity) session, after I enter the password, there is a deferral of some seconds which is not there on my 12.04. LTS partition.
Can this be related to the ...
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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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How to enable search panel of Dolphin in Unity?
I'm not using Kubuntu. But I installed Dolphin 2.0 from Ubuntu repository and liked it a lot and I want to use it instead of Nautilus. The biggest problem is that the search panel when enabled appears ...
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Unity gets extremely slower after the waking up from a sleep! [closed]
Unity Version: 6.12
Ubuntu Version : 13.04 Daily Build (amd64)
Unity Lenses : Wikipedia, Piratebay
VGA : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 (Xorg driver in use)
Computer : Dell Inspiron N5010
I can't ...
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How to disable popup volume bar?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.
Is there a way to make the volume bar pop ONLY when I click on the sound icon and NOT when I use a hot key?
My problem is that when I'm running a fullscreen ...
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NEW INSTALL 12.10 I get Buffer I/O error, dev fd0 … and No Icons (Unity)
I am super new to all (Ubuntu, Linux/Unix, VIM,VI, etc) so bare with me.
I formatted my whopping ~50GB HD and re-installed Windows XP so that I could get the files needed for the Ubuntu Install. I ...
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How to make dash search in all directories? [duplicate]
I have mounted partition and when I search through dash for files, it doesn't look into that partition. I've tried to change the scope of the searching lens "Files & folders", but I can't find ...
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How to shut down the system while using GNOME desktop environment in Ubuntu 11.10
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and I have GNOME and KDE desktop environments installed on it. While I am using Unity, I am able to see the shutdown option and able to shutdown the system by clicking that ...
