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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Unity Launcher Icons failing in (pre-official-release) Ubuntu Unity 25.10
I installed Ubuntu 25.04 on a spare machine (a 2016 Intel Mac Mini), installed Unity (via sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop) and then did a developmental upgrade (via sudo do-release-upgrade -d) ...
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An application with a .desktop file is not appearing on the application launch screen
I am trying to add an application to my Ubuntu 24.04.2 system. This application does not have any "packaging", no apt packaging, no flatpak, nothing like that. It's a bit raw. It is ...
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Desktop files / taskbar icons for portable applications
I have several GUI applications that are not shipped via Ubuntus package infrastructure, but via a 3rd party package manager (conan). The versions of these applications are short-lived, and the ...
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How to change the color of the notifcation badge in the Ubuntu Dock?
I am trying to change the color of the notification badge in the Ubuntu Dock.
Right now it shows like this.
I would like to change it into another color, like red/#ce2056.
I have tried changing the ...
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Ubuntu 24.04: unwanted window switcher Alt+Tab behavior
Yesterday I installed 24.04 and am having just one problem: it's the behavior of window switching with Alt+Tab. What I want is for Alt+Tab to work the way it used to where one press gets you to the ...
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Switching menu and streaming video in UBUNTU 25.04
Hi I have dowloaded a few extensions for my convenience with extension manager and I have installed these extensions:
Add to Desktop
Blur my Shell
Caffeine
Clipboard Indicator
Color Picker.
Compiz ...
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fractional scaling Unity
I really want to install Ubuntu Unity 25.04 on my ThinkPad. I tried the live USB and everything works, but the display would look much better if I could reduce the fractional scaling. I didn't see it ...
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wont boot after uninstalling unity desktp
if its relavent, im on a lenovo e14 thinkpad with 24.04
i installed unity desktop from an linux capable article bc i thought it was unity game engine so i followed the instructions to uninstall it
at ...
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Opera snap is not opening after updating it
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 with unity desktop. Intel Core i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8 and Quadro K2100M/PCIe/SSE2 for graphics on a Dell Precision-M4800.
Today after doing a restart for recent updates,...
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How to get the average wallpaper color in non-gnome and wayland environments, just like Unity?
In GNOME based environments, under X11, the average background color of the wallpaper can be obtained with
xprop -root | grep _GNOME_BACKGROUND_REPRESENTATIVE_COLORS
It gives an output like
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Is there something similar to Unity's launcher count and progress bar in GNOME and KDE?
Unity allows a progress bar and count in its Launcher, and some apps made use of that.
Is something similar available on GNOME and KDE?
I am looking for documentation of APIs to tweak these progress ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu from 24.04 to 24.10 doesn't work
I am currently running Ubuntu Unity 24.04 LTS. However, today I got a message "You are up to date with security updates. However, Ubuntu 24.10 is available.". I pressed the "Update now&...
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Ubuntu Unity 24.04 graphics lagging
i have installed my surface notebook 3 with Unity.
The notebooks has a Mesa Intel® Iris(R) Plus Graphics (ICL GT2) graphics.
I am facing some issues with lagging and hanging graphics. Its hard do ...
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How can I enable a right click options menu for my window manager?
I'm on Lubuntu 24.04LTS and recently applied updates and noticed my window behavior has changed: Before, I could send windows to the bottom with a middle click and if I right clicked on the top of ...
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Most of 24.04 is borked after upgrade from 22.04
So I was trying to get Orcaslicer to run, but kept getting an error relating to the wrong version of glibc (2.38 required, 2.35 installed) when the helpful "would you like to upgrade to 24.04&...
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