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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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On Ubuntu Unity 26.04, the touchpad moves, however it does not click or right-click. The touchpad model is "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad", and the laptop is a Lenovo 100e gen 1. It is using the ...
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The clock applet on the top right of the bar only shows my local time zone and UTC. When I try to use the clock settings to add additional locations, the settings input freezes and dies, though the ...
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I am attempting to try out the new 26.04 version of Ubuntu Unity. I have downloaded the ISO ubuntu-unity-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso and put it on a Ventoy stick and am able to boot OK, to the point where ...
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Being visually impaired I have to use a dark themed desktop. The disadvantage of that is loosing open windows in a sea of blackness. There is a kwin plug-in called Rounded-Corners that solves that ...
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I had Steam installed on a laptop with Xubuntu 22.4 LTS and everything was working fine. I recently installed Steam on a new laptop with Xubuntu Minimal 24.4 LTS - not because I wanted minimal but ...
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Desktop environment was recently changed from Unity to Plasma KDE. Initially both environments worked fine. A few days later, while attempting to revert to Ubuntu environment, the login screen only ...
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I installed Ubuntu 24.04.3 in my ThinkPad. I installed the latest Chrome browser (.deb). After that I have observed 2 duplicate Chrome icons in Unity. I tried different ways to delete them, but failed....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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