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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Why I continue to receive the "gnome-session-binary"?
I'm using Ubuntu Linux X40 6.2.0-33-generic #33~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC and GNOME Shell 42.9
The output of journalctl -xe | grep "gnome-session-binary":
set 27 07:26:35 X40 ...
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Cant get out from command window when accidentaly pressed Ctrl alt F1
When I pressed that command, I couldnt get out, I tried rebooting from command line, restarting the service gmd3 which is the graphics service, I tried ctrl alt f7-f12 and nothing happened, even with ...
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How to get Dock to work with AppImage Hyper?
I had an older version of vercel Hyper (xterm) working and on the dock. I deleted that folder and added a new one (with a different path). The dock doesn't seem able to find it.
I can run hyper from ...
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Unity application non-interactive after unfocusing
Whether windowed, borderless or in fullscreen, after changing focus from a non-steam unity game to another application (or just the desktop), the game becomes non-interactive. Nothing can be clicked ...
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Desktop notifications will not work under Ubuntu 22.04 and Unity DE
I'm using a PC with Ubuntu 22.04
I recently installed the Unity DE (with the Light DM option if I recall correctly). I have since encountered a couple of issues I would like to resolve but will need ...
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How to remove Unity from Ubuntu?
I recently installed Ubuntu unity flavor using a partition.
I now want to remove the partition and give all the space back to regular Ubuntu. I am fine if Unity is completely erased. I do not have any ...
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launch terminal applications, the aircrack tools, from the menu with desktop files
I am attempting to launch a terminal program from the menu. For example; "airmon-ng", I cannot launch from a desktop entry or find the correct syntax for the Exec. Below is an example of ...
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Changing font styles of lightdm-gtk-greeter
I can change my font using the following option in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf:
font-name = ...
But I'm not sure how to change the size or weight. I tried putting the following CSS in my GTK theme:
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Ubuntu 23.04 - Slack notification problem
Slack notifications in Ubuntu 23.04, won't go away
I have tried using:
settings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-icons-emblems false
But this seems to disable notifications for all ...
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VLC hiding Ubuntu left panel (Unity Launcher)
Recenty, when I played a video in VLC media player 3.0.9.2, I is hiding the Ubuntu left panel (Unity Launcher). This issue was not there initially (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS).
But When I enable Always on Top, ...
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Keyboard-indicator draining battery laptop
After upgrade from 22.10 to 23.04 system keep cooler working all the time, draining battery.Checking top command at terminal , show output:
Since it was not fresh install , i decided to do a fresh ...
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Archived version of unity.ubuntu.com
is there an archived version of https://unity.ubuntu.com ?
The url doesn't work anymore and archive.org doesn't have a complete mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20170829034442/http://unity.ubuntu....
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22.04 put a desktop launcher in the favorites launcher bar?
I've created a .desktop launcher to run a .sh script file that launches a program.
The desktop shortcut works, but I don't want to have to go to the desktop every time to run it. I want to put it in ...
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Missing 'Displays' option on settings menu
Ive been trying to connect a second monitor to my laptop and I can't seem to get it working. Following the ubuntu instructions, it seems there should be a display option in my settings but I only have ...
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Unwanted Applications Installed after Installing Desktop Environments on Ubuntu
Hello Ubuntu Community,
I recently installed additional desktop environments on my Ubuntu system using the following commands:
arduino
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop #...
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Opening Unity doesn’t work out
I am new to Linux and wanted to get started in Unity. I have watched many tutorials and I have searched the docs. The problem is, that when I open Unity I always get an other screen than the one in ...
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Shift and Alt keys not working on Ubuntu Unity 23.04
I have an older Asus Laptop that I reformatted and installed Unity. First time using Linux. Got the OS installed pretty easily and it seemed to be working fine. I was poking around with the settings ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, installed Unity (7.5) from Universe, how to switch to Unity 7.6? (if advisable)
I've heard that great upgrades came with the latest release Unity 7.6.
I am using Unity since all the years, simply by having it installed from the Universe repo on the default Ubuntu (Gnome desktop) ...
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Unity Desktop: Tray icons of some apps not showing anymore (Ubuntu 22.04)
Like a ghost that you can't get rid of, here is an issue that was actually solved many years ago and has now been appearing again for a couple of months: Some tray icons don't appear anymore, in my ...
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How to equate Meta and Super keys?
I installed CopyQ program, it's from KDE. I want to make a keyboard shortcut with Winkey. KDE thinks Winkey is called Meta. But my Ubuntu is with Unity, and Unity thinks Winkey is called Super. ...
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How to find the location of a specific app (or .desktop file) visible in launcher
Sometimes I find an application very easily in the native Launcher, or even a third-party one like Synapse; but locating the corresponding app (or at least its .desktop file, which contains the path ...
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Conky manager v2.72 stuck on searching directories
A few days ago I joined Linux by installing UBUNTU to my HP laptop.
I used Some themes and used CONKY to get a date time widget to my desktop screen, but now conky isn't running. I visited its Git ...
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Mouse setting and desktop not appearing in Ubuntu setting
I have a problem with desktop and mouse. The desktop icon is not appearing. Also I can't add a shortcut on it, but I can show the icon from files desktop. about the mouse don't appear create files and ...
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LightDM showing wrong version on Kinetic
Ubuntu Kinetic, 22.10. (Will soon update to Lunar.) Originally 13.10, upgraded via LTS versions since: 13.10 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04.
I use Unity because I like it. ...
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Grey background overlays GDM3 wallpaper
i have a weird issue for a while. I have a GDM login screen on Ubuntu 23.04 set via Login Manager Settings, but when launching the system, wallpapers shows for a second and then gets overlayed by grey ...
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Ubuntu VirtualBox window "multiply" after being dragged
I'm looking for a way to increase performance in Ubuntu VirtualBox. After googling about 20 pages, some say enable "3D Acceleration" along with VMSVGA.
This is my monitor after enabled it. I ...
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How would I set up my Windows 11 laptop with WSL2 as a server that I can run commands to remotely?
The laptop in question has a GPU so is terrible for carrying around but I want to use the GPU to train neural networks, including Unity ML-Agents for Unity running on Windows 11, from my other no-GPU ...
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snap doesn't install Firefox, snap core20: Now No such file or directory
Ubuntu 22.04 with fresh updates. I have free space on the disk. I tried to remove Firefox and install it again. There are a lot problems with the Firefox snap, so I installed from Mozilla. Snap is not ...
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How to enable CSD only in Cheese in Ubuntu 22.10?
I am using Ubuntu Unity 22.10. Due to gtk3-nocsd, Cheese does not have a headerbar, and webcam settings cannot be changed.
I want to disable gtk3-nocsd for cheese, but don't want to globally disable ...
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Top right part of Gnome panel is MISSING
I am using ubuntu 22.04. Instead of the regular gnome session, I use FVWM session.(I am an old time FVWM user and need very many tabs and other FVWM2 features).
I can start gnome-panel by typing "...
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How to execute bash file on Ubuntu Unity startup?
After looking around for a bit on how to change my touchpad parameters automatically on booting up, I've found that I should be able to do this by creating the folder ~/.config/autostart in which I ...
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Empty Dash fixing: how to not reboot?
I had the famous and long-lasting Dash bug in which no softwares are shown when pressing the "Windows" key on the keyboard, on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Searching also did not return any results.
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How to change natural scrolling in Unity 20.04?
I've tried the method mentioned here, using xinput:
sudo xinput set-prop 12
which gives
Device 'SYNA8018:00 06CB:CE67 Touchpad':
Device Enabled (189): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (191): 1....
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Screen Display settings empty after upgrade to 22.04 with Unity instead of GNOME
For reasons, I installed Unity on top of my 20.10 Ubuntu, so I could use ccsm. When I upgraded to 22.04, the unity-control-center would no longer run or install because it's missing pulseaudio.
But ...
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How to replace dracula start button shortcut to dash-to-panel?
I recently install dash-to-panel and dracula gtk theme. So, when I press the Super key (aka windows key), on my keyboard, the "application menu shown" is the dracula one while I want the ...
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Can i change the buttons in firefox to look like in macOS?
I have ubuntu 22.04 and want to change the buttons theme to look like MacOS could you help me to fix this issue?
current setting:
What I want:
I installed gnome themes but it changed only icons in ...
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Increase the size of the icons in ubuntu desktop
I got my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS desktop icons are in normal size,
Now, It is very small, I dont know how it changes its icon size
The Icons in the left panel are very small,
But, as you can see, in the ...
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How to make an "always on top" application on top of push notifications?
I have an Electron application which uses alwaysOnTop, but the problem is push notifications can still appear on top. I do not want to disable notifications; they should still work. But for this ...
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How can I make my user-compiled app show it's logo and name in the Unity Launcher (sidebar)?
I have compiled mupdf from source after following the instructions on their website.
This is what it looks like when it's open. The program already shows up in the Unity Dash with logo, due to me ...
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Unusable 22.10 behaviour
I've had some problems since upgrading to 22.10, which have escalated in the past 2 weeks.
It started with Firefox, both normal and Nightly will suddenly freeze, but just the UI, the pages still work ...
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Tiling in Ubuntu Unity 22.10? [closed]
How can I switch on tiling in Ubuntu Unity 22.10? Offer please some apps for this. Tactile in Extension manager is not supported...kwin-bismuth was installed, but I don't understand how to use it =_=. ...
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How to force a application to use the right GTK version save dialog box
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.2, the long term support version, with unity/lightdm, and Chromium browser from the debian archives. Everything works great except for a couple of native integrations, for ...
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Installing chromeOS theme on ubuntu not working
sudo snap connect [other snap];gtk-3-themes chromeos-themes:gtk-3-themes
error: snap "snap]" is not installed
gtk-3-themes: command not found
and when I entered this
for i in $(snap ...
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Location of Ubuntu/Unity 22.10 window controls
On Ubuntu/Unity 22.10, is it possible to change the location of window controls to the right?
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Is it possible to open About Ubuntu window in Xubuntu?
I've been using Ubuntu for ages (Karmic or Lucid, I don't remember) and if my memory serves me well, the Details or Overview section was present in the system settings in GNOME 2 and Unity. But when I ...
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Screen lock completely locks me out and kills desktop session
On Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop (Lenovo Yoga 710-14IKB with latest firmware), when I lock the screen, the machine becomes completely unresponsive to any input except to closing and reopening the lid to ...
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How to test if .desktop file is working?
Background
I have a script that changes the wallpaper on my Ubuntu 22 every 5 minutes:
#!/bin/bash
targetDir="/home/pedro/Pictures/Wallpapers"
function get_next_photo() {
# Returns a ...
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Network not working in Unity but working in xfce
I am using Ubuntu 22.10. I have two DEs Unity and Xfce. When I am on Unity, firefox does not open pages except for google search results, but everything works fine when I am in Xfce.
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how can i install the mate login screen on ubuntu 20.04?
I just installed mate's desktop on ubuntu focal fossa 20.04. I already have ubuntu unity downloaded on my pc. so the login screen is unity's login screen. how do I change it to mate's login screen via ...
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Configuring vnc server with login screen
At this point I've researched about every forum post there is on the topic and I can't seem to at least understand why I am unable to accomplish this task. Many/most posts are several years old so I ...
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