Would be interesting to have an additional ppa to get all the needed packages, whatever that’s necessary create a complete working install of ubuntu-unity from the mini.iso. At the moment, there is no 18.04 mini iso, would the present ubuntu-unity ppa change the repo in sources.list from artful to bionic?
Or would the present ppa build the unity 7 desktop on mini.iso as bionic?
(In the Launchpad, add sudo apt-get install ubuntu-unity-desktop)
This ppa installs ubuntu-unity desktop on a minimal install, but if you have already some derivative it’d install all, that is, including the apps you may have already, such as Libreoffice. So, my question about a ppa with the minimal amount of apps only unity relative without those additional apps, one might have.
No-install-recommends works. Not many people are going to use it.
It would be nice to have a distro like in Debian, the netinstall. Probably, people had become lazy with ready made distros, so most might not try it that way. Mini.iso can’t be used with UEFI system without a workaround. The best is to create the ubuntu-unity install by the team, using the meta-package and clean it up from any residue packages, release the iso to all available portals, so it’d get lot of advertisement. Have a separate web site too. And, announce it at Distrowatch.
Cheers mate, I’ve just updated off the testing ppa and I can’t help but notice it pulled Geary in. I’m puzzled by this choice, since it doesn’t integrate at all with Online Accounts. Evolution is completely solid in a unity-only desktop as I use it daily and integrates just fine with Online Accounts. Even the unity’s datetime widget opens Evolution when clicking on an upcoming event.
If you’re going to use nemo-desktop is nemo the file manager too? I would appreciate it, actually it would make sense to use more of the xapps as they still use a traditional menu and fit better to Unity in my opinion.
Vimix would be a nice theme, maybe with a Ubuntu color scheme on it? Vinceliuice has updated it on my request so it is still working in Unity and it looks pretty nice.
Vimix is nice, but I personally have a problem with buttons that you’re not sure what they do until you hover over them, which is the case with the window decoration controls.
@Vimix: Yes I know not all like macOS traffic light approach but you get used to it pretty quickly.
@Jayatana: You can but I think there are some issues with other Java applications if you use this solution and that’s the reason why it got deactivated by default. I’m activating it for each application with adding the following to the .vmoptions:
-javaagent:/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar
On some applications you have to add:
env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
after Exec= in the .desktop file, so the global menu is properly shown. If its for example Exec=/bin/sh “some/point/on/your/system” then it should look like this after you edit it:
Edit: There seems to be another way of doing this. Just add this to your ~/.profile file (create it if it doesn’t exist) and global menu should be displayed:
I’ve been wondering (but kept forgetting to ask): is it necessary to use ppa:unity7maintainers/unity7-desktop to test Unity7 or is the one in universe sufficient?
The one in universe should do it. I installed from there and it worked fine and Khurshid has mentioned in another post that we shouldn’t install from that ppa.
Hi all i think for nice or beautiful desktop unity
I user scripts for a laptop monitor 1280x720 intelligent hide launcher unity is only maximized windows
and think only in is necessary in monitor small with resolution minimum 1280x720 what in monitor with full resolution 1080 not is necessary.
See in forum ubuntu