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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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Application viewer setfullscreen function not hiding ubuntu sidebar

I'm building the UI for an application using Qt and QML for Ubuntu Linux. I have a viewer window with a canvas element which is supposed to be fullscreen by default. On opening the application this works fine (i.e. Ubuntu sidebar and top taskbar are…
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numix theme not working on ubuntu 15.10

So, what i did was > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:numix/ppa > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install numix-icon-theme numix-icon-theme-circle Then i went to unity-tweak-tool and selected numix-something under theme-icons tab. And, nothing…
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Is it possible to control window shadows individually?

Is it possible to control the shadows/glow behind the widget window's outer border? It seems to be automatically applied to all the windows, but I'd need to disable it for some of my application's windows. Below is an example of the shadow I wish to…
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Getting Ubuntu 14.10 Unity Launcher to launch Android-Studio

I am having trouble getting Ubuntu Unity Launcher to launch Android-Studio. Here is my desktop file: more Android-studio.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Android-studio Comment=Android Integrated Development…
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How can I configure Emacs to use Ubuntu's disappearing scrollbars?

Ubuntu 14.04 has these pretty overlay scrollbars that hide when unused. Is there a way to configure Emacs to use this kind of scrollbar when run in windowed (GUI) mode?
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Adding items to Unity's global menu bar for a pure X11 application

My application is written using pure X11 APIs only, i.e. no GTK, qt or any other middleware. Everything is done via the low-level Xlib API, e.g. XCreateWindow() and so on. Is it possible to add items to Unity's global menu bar from a pure X11…
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Desktop file not working in Ubuntu Unity, unless it is executable which breaks packaging guidelines

In unity, icons will only be displayed when the .desktop file has executable permissions. But doing this causes lintian to complain with executable-desktop-file. What am I supposed to do in this instance?
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How to find the factors of a 3 digit number

I'm writing a mathematical toolkit consisting of various commands. One of the commands I would like to write is for finding the factors of a 3 digit number. Please name the command as “myfactors”. Here’s an example transcript: $ myfactors abc abc…
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Running application (Eclipse) disappeared on Ubuntu Unity

I was using Eclipse and it disappeared. I can see its running using ps command, but I cannot Alt-Tab (Switch) to it, and its missing on left bar. Before restarting it (I will loose work :S) does anybody have a suggestion? (Even switching to running…
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add google voice search to unity ubuntu 13.04

first time question, but have gotten plenty of answers from your site so thanks peeps. I want to add a .desktop file to the unity launcher that will open a new tab in chrome and auto press the ctrl+shift+. buttons so that it automatically opens a…
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Issues with custom Google Chrome *.desktop file

I've got some issues with a custom *.desktop file for Google's Crome Browser for the Unity Quicklist. I've added some additional shortcuts for example for YouTube. The problem is that if no Chrome Window is opened it adds as I click the YouTube…
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Xlib XSendEvent click event do not work inside of some windows on Ubuntu 12.04

i'm trying to send mouse click event using xlib in a ubuntu 12.04, all works when i do the click in the desktop bar icons and works when i do click in the title bar of each window (close, minimize, maximize window) but in some windows doing a click…
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How would I go about making an alias which runs a command with an ampersand &?

I'm trying to run gvim work with Unity but I can't seem to get it working. A workaround is I can run the command gvim -f MYARGS& to make it play nice with Unity. This lets unity manage the menu bar or something. To do this I tried a command like:…
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xwd/java.awt.Robot captures black windows (everything except unity2d shell is black)

Today, I ran into weird issue: java.awt.Robot captures black areas, instead of image content. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenJDK6/7. java.awt.Robot on Unix is supported by the sun.awt.X11.XRobotPeer, which, following the corresponding OpenJDK…
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unity broken after update

Ubuntu 12.04 After applying updates today I've lost unity3d. apt-get gives the following message: unity : Depends: unity-common (= 5.12+bzr2444ubuntu0+709) but 5.12+bzr2445ubuntu0+709 is to be installed Any ideas on how to either downgrade or solve…
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