Testing unity-session in 18.04

[kammon101]

Actually unity tweak tool is still in the repo and it still works, just tried it here…

[jaime-cruz]

Maybe for some of the functions, UTT works, but it didn’t for the “Minimize” function I was asking about.

[copong]

That did it, thank you!

Note: change seemed immediate, didn’t seem to need a reboot.

[kammon101]

You may be right. I just use UTT to change icon themes and font size, for all other things I use the ccsm.

[copong]

So I’ve been using Unity + Caja for a couple of weeks now and I can say the combination works just fine.

One issue however is the Rubbish Bin icon on the panel - it opens Nautilus no matter what - I have indeed set up the system to default to caja (xdg-mime default caja.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search )

[TimApple]

Hey there, I just threw Unity in my 18.04 install. Everything seems to be working just fine at this point, I haven’t run into any issues. I am not a coder but am interested in helping test and any admin type stuff that may be needed.

Otherwise I will just follow this thread and help out where I can. Thanks for keeping her alive.

Cheers,
Tim

[manbutu]

I LOVE UNITY DE
ME ENCANTA UNITY DE
https://unity-desktop.org/#
better install from live .iso

[kammon101]

I think I have spotted a bug. When the super key is pressed down the expected behaviour is to show a list of keyboard shortcuts. But this doesn’t appear if workspaces is enabled in System settings > Appearance > Behaviour. If workspaces is disabled, keyboard shortcuts list shows again.

This was not the case in 16.04

Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 release iso, then installed unity with the maintainer ppa.

[khurshid-alam]

https://unity-desktop.org/#

Who is the author of this website? Please send me a PM.

[chanath]

I believe, it is done by @gamunu. He wrote sometime ago. Maybe, the best way to contact him is through his github page.

[gamunu]

Hello, I was little bit busy last few days. Didn’t notice the notification.

[tejasbhagwat]

Previously I was using ubuntu 16.04 (unity desktop). After release of 18.04, I installed it fresh on my laptop. While installing, I had chosen the option ‘sign-in automatically’. After installing 18.04, I install unity desktop environment with command ‘sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop’. I had chosen lightdm as default display manager. When I restarted my laptop, it shows me login screen with lightdm display manager. In settings option, under user details section ‘sign-in automatically’ option is still showing on. How can I disable login screen every time? Not sure, if this is a bug in unity/ubuntu &/or should I report it somewhere.

[mrprobot]

I have activated them too and the shortcuts are shown but I think I have activated them through unity-tweak-tool. Install it and try it from there. Might be a bug in the settings.

[mrprobot]

Have you tried to deactivate and reactivate the setting? If this isn’t working open the unity-greeter settings with an editor and add it there. You can do this by:

sudo gedit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-unity-greeter.conf

It should look like this:

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=unity-greeter

Just change it like that:

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
autologin-user=username

where ‘username’ has to be changed to your username, for example tejasbhagwat. Save the file and reboot.

[kammon101]

No difference with UTT

[manbutu]

Thank you chanath i hope khurshid-alam see you information.

[tejasbhagwat]

Thanks mrprobot. The first trick worked. I deactivated and reactivated the setting & now I am able login automatically without getting sign-in window. Thanks once again.

[mrprobot]

Maybe it’s an issue with the maintainers ppa, cause I don’t have it. You could try to remove the ppa with ppa-purge or maybe reinstall without adding the ppa. You won’t need it, just install Unity with ubuntu-unity-desktop and you’re fine.

@tejasbhagwat
No problem!

[jaime-cruz]

Deactivating and reactivating worked for me too. Thanks.

[chad-j-muller]

Thanks to the Devs who are keeping Unity 7 alive in Ubuntu 18.04. I have been enjoying using it after installing a clean minimal install of the 18.04 iso and running sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop ! Thus far, everything is working just fine. I did additionally install the extra compiz configuration packages and unity tweak tool and synclient package for my laptop, but those were just for fine-tuning purposes for my own usage.

Here’s to more Unity 7 in the Linux and Ubuntu world! Keep up the great work! Still working great 1 month later!