Tag: unity desktop

Guake has this annoying thing when used on Unity. It does not adjust its width to compensate for the Unity Launcher when it (Launcher) is set to Never hide. The result is part of it is outside the screen, particularly the right side where the scrollbar is located, and the Add A New Tab button…

On two of my Ubuntu 11.04 installs – on my notebook and the other for my desktop – Dash defaults to full screen mode. I guess it has something to do with the size of my monitors and Ubuntu automatically determines what is best for my screen. My notebook has a 14″ screen, while my…

Make a live CD or USB of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. You only need to write the ISO to a CD. Get UNetbootin to make a live USB. Adjust the BIOS on next boot to make sure that the boot device first priority is either an optical device or USB. Once you get to the…

Ubuntu’s Unity desktop already saves a good portion of vertical screen space by design. Thanks to the global menu bar and what once used to be the application list bar at the bottom is now replaced by the Unity Launcher at the left side of the screen. That is how many pixels of vertical space…

The window switching for same apps on Unity – starting with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal – is confusing. It is easier to determine windows of different applications with the use of Alt+Tab combo where there is an overlay icon shown by default. When switching between windows of the same application it’s hard to determine which…

The default Unity launcher quicklist for Firefox could certainly do with a few additional options. It’s easy to add a few more. This tip I got from AskUbuntu. There are more quicklist tips available and you can read it at this page – http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity. I only wanted to add a few more useful options than…

(1) The Unity launcher appears to look better when the backlight is set to toggle. That is, when an application (app) is running its icon backlight is On and turned Off when it is not. This makes the running app more distinct against the non-running ones. Take a look at the comparison. The one on…

The reason why docks usually don’t have much appeal to me is simple. It takes longer to get from one window to another on situations where multiple windows of the same application are open. Let us say for example I have several windows of LibreOffice Writer open. It would take me how many steps to…

Ubuntu, despite how it has gone by leaps and bounds in terms of usability and appearance, still lacks a lot of things to make it truly a “For Dummy” operating system. I am afraid they are taking the route on aesthetics too much focus, what with the Unity project and all that, while there are…