7:32 AM
In my opinion, the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS unity is much better than ever. It's fast, stable, and easy-to-use. But I still don't like the Unity launcher which waste my screen space. How do I remove it? Actually, we can remove Unity launcher without removing the whole Unity desktop, but we still can hide it and remains hidden even we put mouse pointer on the left side of screen.
How to:Simply open "System Settings" and choose "Appearance".
Open "Behavior" tab, under "Auto-hide the Launcher" set to "ON" and give the minimal value to "Reveal sensitivity".
That's all, the Unity Launcher will remain hidden even you put the mouse pointer on left side of the screen.
Enjoy :)
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8:14 PM
If you used Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, you might know what Unity Dodge Windows behavior is. When there is no window opened, the Unity launcher will remain appear on screen, but when there is a window overlap it, it will disappeared, magic!
Unfortunately, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Presice Pangolin misses such feature. When you activate the auto hide option, the Unity launcher will remain hidden until you hover your pointer on it. But, don't worry, you can bring it back with a patched Unity created by Jonathan French (ojno). This patch also brings an ability to be able to click a program's icon on the Launcher and minimize/unminimize that window, just like many dock applications do!
Installation instructionTo install this patched Unity, simply run the following command:
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If you want to revert back to the official Unity release, please run the following command:
- sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
- sudo ppa-purge ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped
Don't forget to logout and login back to see the changes :)
via:
Ubuntu Forums
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12:50 PM
Frederico Araújo Mendes sent us his design concept (Mockup) of Unity 5.x that was intended for Ubuntu 12.04, is this design will be the next candidate of Ubuntu 12.04 Unity design? I hope so ..
That was interesting design from him, this design reflects the power of modern desktop, all we want are available in a single click. I think some of this features may indeed be present in Unity today or tomorrow. Some of features that's good and should be considered to be the next Unity features are :
- Unity Widgets - Some poeple used to install an application like Screenlets, Conky and Super Karamba to get some widget for complement a desktop features or just to decorate a desktop appearence, it think it was good idea if Unity bring this thing by default.
- Unity Appearence Setting - there was unity appearence setting provided which can be used by the user to setting or choose unity dash display that according to own taste.
- New Design of Lens : We're interested in new design that made for unity music lens, you can browse and play music directly from dash which designed very close to the music player.
- Feel interested in this design, See following video :
Ask and suggestion can be forwarded to :
nq6@hotmail.com
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9:28 AM
Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Unity as default interface, although Unity run on top of Gnome 3, the appearance and functionality between Unity and Gnome-Shell was different. In this post, I will show you some of keyboard shortcut of Unity you should know, knowing some keyboard shortcut of course will speed up your work.
Here some list of Unity keyboard shortcut you should know :
Launcher
- Hold Super – Show launcher.
- Hold Super, then 1 or 2 or 3 and so on until 0 – Opens or puts focus to an application. The number actually corresponds to the location of the icon on the launcher from top to bottom.
- Adding Shift will open a new instance of the application if it’s already open.
- Super+T – Opens the trash can.
- Alt+F1 – Put keyboard focus on the Launcher, use arrow keys to navigate, Enter launches an application, Right arrow exposes the quick lists if an application has them.
- Ctrl+Alt+T – Launch a terminal window.
Dash- Tap Super(Press, don’t hold) – Opens the Dash.
- Super+A opens the Dash in Applications Len
- Tab - Move to the next lens (When the dash is open)
- Shift+Tab – 11.10+ only – Move to the previous lens (when the dash is open)
- Alt+F2 – Invokes the Dash in a “special mode” to run a command. Typing in a Folder Name will find that folder in Nautilus, you can also use ~ as a shortcut in the field. Typing an application name will show different settings of that application with that application itself.
Panel- F10 – Open the first menu on the panel, use the arrows keys to move along to the end of that list or to the last menu, which is ‘Session’ by default.
- Press Esc to close the menus without choosing anything.
Window Management- Super+W – Spread mode, zoom out on all windows in all workspaces.
Spread Mode- Super+D – Minimize or restore all windows; (Show Desktop.)
- Alt+Tab – Switch to other applications, you can hold Alt down and then hit tab to switch to the next application.
- Alt-` (The key to the left of 1 on US layouts, by default Unity will take it as any key above the Tab key.)- Switch between an application’s windows. Hitting this combo when you’re already focused on an application will automatically switch only between the windows for that application.
Window PlacementCycling through the same key Unity will cycle through different placement widths, so experiment by hitting the NUM key multiple times, for example Ctrl-Alt-numpad 5 5 5:
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 7 – Place window in top left corner of screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 8 – Place window in top half of screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 9 – Place window in top right corner of screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 4 – Place window on the left side of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 5 – Center/Maximize the window in the middle of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 6 – Place window on the right side of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 1 – Place window in the bottom left corner of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 2 – Place window in the bottom half of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 3 – Place window in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 0 – Maximize window.
- Alt + F7 with Arrow keys – Moves the current window on the screen in the current workspace. Use Arrow keys to change its position fast, and use Arrow keys (on NUMpad when NumLock is off) to change it slowly.
Workspace Management- Super+S – Expo mode (for everything), zooms out on all the workspaces and lets you manage windows.
- Shift+Alt+↑ – Expo mode for all windows in the current workspace only.
- Ctrl+Alt+← / → / ↑ / ↓ – Change to a new workspace.
- Ctrl+Alt+Shift-← / → / ↑ / ↓ – Place window to a new workspace.
- Alt + F10 to resize current window between normal size and/or maximize.
- Ctrl+Alt+L - Lock the screen.
Screenshots- Above three shortcuts will work after you press Super + S – Take a screenshot of the current workspace.
- Alt+PrtScn – Take a screenshot of the current window.
Feel something is missing ?, you can find it or even created through ubuntu keyboard shortcut setting, go ubuntu
System Setting (top right corner of your desktop) >
Keyboard, and then go to tab
Shortcut .
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8:56 AM
Unity is enabled by default on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and the latest version Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot will enable Unity by default too. Does your hardware support Unity? How to check it? Please read the rest of the article to figure it out!
You must have Ubuntu Natty or Ubuntu Oneiric installed to perform this check:
- /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
You can see the result of this test in the above picture, I have Intel GMA X4500HD and it supports Unity 3D, how about yours?
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