Hi,
Not sure if it is the same issue. I noticed that ctrl+alt+T in unity has not been as responsive since 17.10, that is probably related to the bug you post. But in this case the issues are very much related to the Nvidia driver used. For noveau and Nvidia-340.107, no problem with shortcuts (save the a bit laggy ctrl+alt+t since 17.10) With Nvidia390.87, cltr+alt+T and printscreen not work in Unity but work in gnome shell
What is the output of
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys terminal
&
update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator ?
For me it is <Control><Alt>t but for some it is <Primary><Alt>t, Nvidia still messing things…
Ctrl+Alt+T opens the Terminal, doesn’t it? Printscreen and this works with Unity. It did in 18.04 and now in 18.10. I don’t have 18.04 any more, it had moved to 18.10. I have only Intel graphics, though.
It is Control + Alt t In fact I tried creating custom shortcut for gnome-terminal in settings, still not work.
It works on intel machine . On this Nvidia machine it works for noveau and nvidia-340.107, but not for nvidia-390.87 .
I found the root cause. Unity uses legacy keygrabber code depending on xdg env variable DESKTOP_SESSION. But since artful DESKTOP_SESSION is “unity” and not “ubuntu”.
The fix is in unity7-desktop ppa.
In 18.10, add the ppa (ppa:unity7maintainers/unity7-desktop) and upgrade unity-settings-daemon and libunity-settings-daemon. Then restart.
Now all shortcuts works as expected. (except the issue with xorg)
Note: The ppa also has the fix for sharing panel.
I will update the ppa for bionic later.
Update: It is also updated for bionic.
There is any other workaround for this? I just install unity desktop using ubuntu server 18.04.1 and can’t find a way to sync with my nexcloud
Has anyone ever tried to change the indicator order in the panel with the file:
/usr/share/indicator-application/ordering-override.keyfile
or:
~/.local/share/indicators/application/ordering-override.keyfile
?
I changed it but Unity doesn’t seem to load it or at least it doesn’t seem to work with mulitload and redshift.
Hello all,
Since 2 weeks I have a problem when updating my Ubuntu Unity 18.04, installed in march with the Ubuntu-Unity iso image dd 2018-02-03 from the Unity maintainers. I get these messages:
“failed to download repository information” and
E: Repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity7maintainers/unity7-desktop/ubuntu bionic InRelease’ changed its ‘Label’ value from ‘Ubuntu-Unity-18.04-Testing’ to ‘Ubuntu-Unity-18.10-Testing’
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
I don’t know how to fix this. I am sorry if this is the wrong place for asking support, but I don’t know where else to go since this concerns Unity. I hope you have a solution because I want to stay with Unity forever!
Thank you in advance,
Lisa
PPA name has been changed. Just remove the PPA and re-add it. This should solve the problem. I am going to upload some new fix in the PPA in next weekend. So better wait till then.
I’d be quite happy to get rid of that “option,” only don’t know, which file/folder to delete, so it’d stop showing.
Any idea, which file/folder, guys?
It’s built-in to yelp. Previously (16.04) Ubuntu patched yelp to use ubuntu-docs (help:ubuntu-help), no more.
So no way except to remove yelp which has some uses to some…
This is what happens, if I remove yelp,
sudo apt autoremove
[sudo] password for akoya:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-user-docs : Depends: yelp (>= 3) but it is not installed
ubuntu-docs : Depends: yelp but it is not installed
ubuntu-unity-desktop : Depends: yelp but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-indic but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-kacst-one but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-khmeros-core but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-lao but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-nanum but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-sil-abyssinica but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-sil-padauk but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-takao-pgothic but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-thai-tlwg but it is not installed
Recommends: fonts-tibetan-machine but it is not installed
Recommends: fwupdate-signed but it is not installable
Recommends: gir1.2-gmenu but it is not installable
Recommends: libreoffice-calc but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-impress but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-math but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-ogltrans but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-pdfimport but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-style-breeze but it is not installed
Recommends: libreoffice-writer but it is not installed
Recommends: unity-webapps-common but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
It wants to uninstall Ubuntu-unity-desktop, when I try to uninstall yelp.
@khurshid-alam, maybe all these be taken out of the meta package, especially yelp.
EDIT: sudo apt --fix-broken install reinstalled yelp, then I manually deleted /usr/bin/yelp and clicking on “Ubuntu Help…” doesn’t open anything.
Actually try leaving yelp but removing
ubuntu-docs, gnome-user-guide, gnome-user-docs
Though the resulting “Help” may be outdated?
(- I somehow thought that the useful unity-scope-yelp needed yelp but it doesn’t…
Thanks. Put back yelp, uninstalled the above. I am actually doing this in 19.04, for I don’t have any 18.04 installs.
Is the repo necessary for a general user, like my dad?
Also, I installed Nemo, but for some reason, I couldn’t change the wallpaper. It worked fine when I did the same thing in 19.04.
All of a sudden my Unity desktop on both of my Bionic machines have become practically unusable and I’m not sure why. Only symptom I can see is the indicator-datetime process is hogging an entire CPU core, and eating up 5 Gb of memory. Not sure why, as I haven’t applied any new maintenance or software over the past week. This started happening yesterday. Both machines are at Bionic 18.01.1. One is a Thinkpad T420 with 8Gb of memory, the other is an HP Pavilion with AMD CPU, and 16Gb of memory. Ideas?
Hello everyone. Finaly i had some time to upgade from 16.04 to 18.04. I removed gdm3 and gnome-shell. I think that Unity is working very good under 18.04. Because the sharing panel was not working I added the Unity7 maintainers ppa. So actually I am on the ppa version.
Of course there some things that are not working:
Found my answer. Google changed something and now the Calendar is constantly trying to sync with it. I disconnected Google from my online accounts and everything is running normally. I have the calendar and contacts syncing through Thunderbird anyway so I didn’t need Gnome to be doing that too.