Posts Tagged “unity”
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 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…
Maybe not really today because the release happened about 3 days ago, April 28. However, it is only today that I finally was able to get a copy. The Ubuntu download servers were too slow that day, presumably, from the thousands to millions of people trying to get their hands on the new release. What…