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Unity is an interface for the GNOME desktop environment developed by Canonical Ltd for its Ubuntu operating system.

Founded in 2010, the Unity project started by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical has gone on to deliver a consistent user experience for desktop and netbook users alike. Putting great design at the heart of the project, Unity and its technologies such as Application indicators, System indicators, and Notify OSD, have strived to solve common problems in the Free Software desktop while optimizing the experience for touch, consistency and collaboration.

http://unity.ubuntu.com/

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using FreeRDP disk redirection

I'm on an Ubuntu machine (client) RDP'ing into another Ubuntu machine (server). I'd like to access my client's home dir from within my server session. From what I can tell, this is done with "disk redirection". I've tried this (I've excluded all the…
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In Bash on Ubuntu 14.04, Unity, How can I get the total size of an open window including borders and title?

I have used the answer to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14159/how-do-i-find-the-window-dimensions-and-position-accurately-including-decoration in my bash scripts, and had good success with my Silentcast application on Xfce, but now that…
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chrome.windows.onFocusChanged never returns chrome.windows.WINDOW_ID_NONE in Ubuntu 14.04?

The official documentation states that when no Chrome windows have focus, I should get an event with a windowId of WINDOW_ID_NONE(-1). However, I can not cause this to happen in my setup, using Ubuntu 14.04 with the default Unity DWM. In my…
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How do I work around Unity not generating ICONIFY events when a window is minimized?

I'm trying to work around this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/998073 According to the gtk documentation, and application should receive a window-state-event notification when the main window is minimized. The window's state should…
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How to set Java aplication name in Unity?

I have a Java application, but when I hover over it in the Unity launcher, the name is blank. A similar thing happens in Windows with the name of the window in the taskbar. I pictured the issue in Unity below. Note the empty app name coming from the…
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How to simultaneously run multiple window managers (esp. xmonad) for VNC

I'll start with a little background. A small project of mine has been to try to use my Android tablet as an external monitor for my laptop using a VNC client (vnc4server). There are two main options for doing this that I have seen. The simplest is…
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Multi-user secure shell session sharing

I'm looking to do some pair programming with a collegue remotely, and I'm looking for the best tool to help us achieve this. Ideally I'd prefer for the remote user to have as little access as possible, and it'd be preferrable if I could monitor all…
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Running a JavaScript function for Ubuntu Webapp integration from JQuery

I am trying to intrgrate my website with Ubuntu Unity as a webapp following the tutorial on the Ubuntu developers site. So far, I have this code in my HTML document: