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How do I reset my unity configuration on 15.04?
I've been googling many answers to this question, such as the various suggestions up and down https://askubuntu.com/a/202020/99436, and none of them are working for me. They might work for you. They ...
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How do I always show the launcher (i.e. disable the auto-hide functionality)? [closed]
When I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, the setting remained. Now that I have done a clean install of 11.10, the CCSM option does NOT work anymore and I can't seem to find a solution. Also note that I am ...
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Unity top bar, side bar, and window decorations missing after upgrade to 12.10
I upgraded from 12.04.1 to 12.10 via the Update Manager and the upgrade said it completed successfully, however after rebooting the Unity task bar was missing along with the launch bar and the window ...
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How do I restore the Unity 7 Ctrl-Alt-Numpad combination behaviour on Gnome 3?
By default, instead of doing something useful, the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad key combination in Gnome 3 shoves a window in the specified direction across the entire workspace. These shortcuts do not show in the ...
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UI elements become completely unresponsive
Many of my UI elements become completely unresponsive. This happens in both Unity and GNOME Classic.
There are lot's of examples of this, but usually only some of the UI elements are unresponsive (e....
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14.04 LTS No Dash / Launcher after update through Software Updater
I'm getting no Dash / Launcher after I login. This started after an update through the Software updater. Please help to fix ... I've already lost a day trying different options posted on askubuntu.com....
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13.10 - Black borders, black terminal
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 and I'm seeing a strange behaviour. All windows I open have a black, boxy border, including popups, as you can see in the provided image. (The black box in the ...
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How to completely remove and reinstall Ubuntu?
I want to reinstall Ubuntu, but I also want all information and settings to disappear. So everything looks like the first time I installed it. Is it possible to do so via Terminal? Or what are the ...
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How to completely restore default desktop environment in ubuntu 14.04 lts after installing and removing gnome desktop environment.
I got a mix of icons and windows display between gnome and unity. I have follow the steps in other forums with that explain how to remove gnome and restore unity, but that did not work as I expect.
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Unity crash in Ubuntu 14.04
After logging in to my account, I see no panels or anything else, only the background. I cannot even start a terminal with ctrl+alt+t. The only thing the system responds to is ctrl+alt+delete which ...
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How Can I Get Transparent Right Click Menus Back in Ubuntu 12.04?
Before upgrading to 12.04, I was running 11.10. I had a Compiz setting enabled via Ubuntu Tweak. That setting was 'Enable Transparent Menus'. This option allowed all 'right click menus' to be ...
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How do I set the panel whitelist back to the default?
I set this option:
gsettings set desktop.unity.panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
and now I am having all sorts of weird problems with my panel like double icons and stuff, how do I reset this ...
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How do I reset Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I want to reset Ubuntu. I have searched it on Google many times and I am new to Ubuntu so I am wondering how to reset it without too much complication. I have already tried re-installing it but my ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 shows no launcher or menu
I have 'upgraded' to Ubuntu 12.10 from a previous nice version that always worked. I have installed from a CD downloaded from this site. I start the PC (HP Pavillion zv5200) and arrive at a signon ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 Unity doesn't load after upgrade
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 only to find that Unity won't load (login freezes, after doing ctrl+alt+F1, logging in and then doing startx, I get a blank desktop and the mouse pointer, and nothing ...