Testing Unity Session in 18.10

khurshid-alam 2018-10-04 16:27:12 UTC #25

Try with fresh install. Or try with older kernel which was working before. It seems there is some sorrt of regression… I have xps 15 with different sound card…I can’t reproduce this.

walter-garcia 2018-10-04 16:33:02 UTC #26

Older kernels don’t work either. Strange thing is I’m getting this with two different sound cards. “sudo alsa force-reload” recovers the sound (the card is detected by lspci, the thing is pulseadio is not detecting it). I thought it was a problem of the XPS 15 hardware, but it looks it is not. Do you think Unity could have any relation with this issue? I’m wondering why nobody is reporting anything similar in the Ubuntu Development Version forum.

walter-garcia 2018-10-05 05:05:48 UTC #27

My sound problem does not seem Unity related, I also have it using Gnome.

initu-icr 2018-10-20 20:54:17 UTC #28

In the system information in ubuntu 18.10 it appears as ubuntu 18.04 and does not open the gnome-tweak-tool to change the theme and icon since the unity-tweak-tool does not open either.

khurshid-alam 2018-10-20 21:02:45 UTC #29

@initu-icr

I opened a MR for that. Will be fixed/SRUed.

And unity-tweak-tool doesn’t open? Can you try running it from terminal and post the log here ?

walter-garcia 2018-10-25 06:27:37 UTC #30

I’m seeing a graphic freeze (no mouse or keyboard) in Ubuntu Unity 18.10 when waking up the screen from sleeping or waking up suspend. I have to go to a console and come back to the graphic session to be able to use the mouse and keyboard again.

A question: Are we allowed to enter bugs in Launchpad? I feel like proscribed when still using Unity in current Ubuntu versions, and never know if that is allowed or it will marked as “won’t fix” (of course this does not apply for Unity in 16.04, but I’m mean reporting bugs using it in versions > 17.10).

copong 2018-10-25 09:00:17 UTC #31

I don’t know if it’s related to @walter-garcia post above, but for a couple of years now I’ve had an issue in Unity whereby unlocking the desktop would result on a black screen with a working mouse cursor. Switching to a console and back to X would restore stuff as well.

This tends to happen on sessions that are a day or more old and has happened regardless of the age of the OS’s install, across clean reinstalls and different computers.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/951928/black-screen-after-sleep-with-only-mouse-displaying-on-16-04-lts/952683

A lot of reports like that. I don’t think it was ever addressed.

walter-garcia 2018-10-25 09:13:35 UTC #32

For me, it happened in the past, but in 18.04 (and before) it was working fine. It started happening with the upgrade to 18.10.

walter-garcia 2018-10-30 07:13:06 UTC #33

The lockup when waking up has disappeared for me in 18.10, I think after some updates in xorg that I got a couple of days ago.

itzcuintliazul 2018-11-03 20:53:21 UTC #34

If I install Unity over Ubuntu Mate 18.10, Is it valid for help testing it too?

chanath 2018-11-03 22:59:28 UTC #35

Sure. I installed Unity over Xubuntu, and would do that over Lubuntu, and then uninstall the original desktops, and their specific apps. (Have a look, New ubuntu-unity iso)

itzcuintliazul 2018-11-04 04:26:47 UTC #36

Do you recommend me install unity it over Xubuntu or Lubuntu (because of lightweight), or continue with mate it’s ok?

PD: May if I keep both (unity and other DE), could it be problematic?

itzcuintliazul 2018-11-04 05:42:56 UTC #37

After installing unity and adding the 18.10 ppa, I don’t have the option to make my touchpad “tap to click” in the settings

chanath 2018-11-04 09:26:41 UTC #38

Touchpad doesn’t work Linux in one of my laptops. Any distribution. It works only with Windows. It has a touchscreen, so not much of a problem. The maker of the laptop tried to help, but couldn’t. They make only Windows computers.

About Unity on other DEs; I am experimenting with them. I stay away from the default Ubuntu distro, when installing Unity on them. Xubuntu is a very good distro, so you can keep it and change to one DE, when you want. I uninstalled xubuntu-desktop just to see how Unity works alone.

@khurshid-alam, @mc3man Do you know a solution for this touchpad problem of @itzcuintliazul?

walter-garcia 2018-11-04 11:36:12 UTC #39

Some people report fixing it with:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true

mc3man 2018-11-04 12:11:55 UTC #40

For more mouse & touchpad settings install the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package
(- should be a recommend of ubuntu-unity-desktop package

itzcuintliazul 2018-11-04 17:14:35 UTC #41

This resolve the problem, now “Mouse and touchpad” options show me more settings. Thanks
(I think this package would must be included by default)

mrprobot 2018-11-06 08:45:59 UTC #42

It was included but got replaced with libinput with 17.10 I think. I also have to install xserver-xorg-input-synaptic to get the touchpad settings.

pilgrim333 2018-12-14 06:17:54 UTC #43

I tried Unity on Ubuntu 18.10 running inside VMWare and I can’t bind <Shift><Alt>Button2 to “Close Window”; I can’t bind any keyboards together with buttons to an action at all. Also, the Worspace Navigation doesn’t work, eg <Ctrl><Alt>-> does nothing. Has anyone tried Unity on Ubuntu 18.10 running inside VMWare on Windows 10 and it was working? Thanks.

copong 2019-02-15 16:49:25 UTC #44

Weird one. I’m getting a password prompt when trying to suspend the system manually via top panel > power button > suspend.

Upon authorising, it does suspend fine.

Closing the lid also suspends without any password malarkey.