The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

[dibl]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Add these 3 to your standard 10.10 repos, and you're good to go:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
#deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main


deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick free non-free #Medibuntu - Ubuntu 10.10 "maverick meerkat"
# deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick free non-free #Medibuntu (source) - Ubuntu 10.10 "maverick meerkat"

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-co...n-java6/ubuntu maverick main
#deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-co...n-java6/ubuntu maverick main

[Detonate]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

I've already got those. I thought there might be some specific to KDE. Oh,, now I see the first one is kubuntu specific.

Thanks.

[Detonate]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Check this. Not sure what it means.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4346

[dibl]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu



I take it the reference to using "plasma" indicates irony in the "dropping KDE" comment.

[MoonRise]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Not very well worded in my opinion. Very Confusing.

[kubicle]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Not very well worded in my opinion. Very Confusing.

It's just adding a bit of humorous shock value to the post...to make you go "WHAT?" (geeks tend to love that sort of thing )

What they basically did, is changing the KDE session string (visible in kdm session list) to be inline with the new KDE rebranding that's been in effect for a while:
The Desktop isn't "KDE" anymore, it's "KDE Plasma Workspace"

[MoonRise]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Ahhhh.

[woodsmoke]

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I fell in love with Compiz because of teaching online, it significantly reduced my time moving between four different apps when interacting with a student and I am now going to see if the Plasma desktop will help in that respect, but....

THIS is what caught my eye..............I guess I'm behind the times:

Shuttleworth added that Dell, which he said had sold several million Ubuntu desktops, laptops, and netbooks, supports the project.


And, probably two months ago, when I was at Office Depot they had a Win7 lappy with touch screen on it as a featured lappy.
woodsmoke

[Detonate]

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OK, unwilling to wait to check this thing out I issued the command [sudo apt-get install unity] in my Maverick and I'm now playing with the Unity Desktop. It's kind of cool. Check it out.

[GreyGeek]

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OK, unwilling to wait to check this thing out I issued the command [sudo apt-get install unity] in my Maverick and I'm now playing with the Unity Desktop. It's kind of cool. Check it out.

I am running Maverick on vbox. I installed unity via synaptic but when I open the login option all I see are KDE, Gnome desktop, Gnome netbook, and the failsafes. No "Unity" listed. Everything but KDE gives me Gnome.

I'm using kdm. Do I have to switch to gdm?

[Detonate]

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Choose Netbook.

[GreyGeek]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

I did. It didn't look any different than the Gnome Desktop. I suspect it is checking the memory and since I allocated more than 1GB to the virtual RAM it triggers the desktop and not Unity.

[Detonate]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

Maybe so. I'm not running it in a VM. It loaded fine for me, but I did install it from my Gnome install.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: The Unity Desktop in Ubuntu

I installed and tried unity. It does not work under kdm; just freezes. It need to be run with gdm.

CTRL-ALT-F1
(login)
sudo service kdm stop
sudo service gdm start

For session type, choose gnome-netbook
Looks nice, but kind of lame for a large hi-res monitor. Might look great on a laptop or netbook. It does seem to be using my gnome theme.

FYI - to add a session type to kdm:
cd /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/sessions

create a file whatever.desktop like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=XSession
Exec=whatever
TryExec=whatever
Name=Whatever
Comment=The Whatever desktop.

where "whatever" is started with /usr/bin/whatever

so for unity, just replace all instances of "whatever" with "unity"

but don't do it, as I said, unity just crashes under kdm.

[GreyGeek]

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Things didn't work that way in VBox Maverick.
gdm wasn't installed so I had to install it.

CTRL-ALT-F1 is trapped by the host before the guest can see it so the host breaks into a console, not the guest. Opening a Konsole and issuing
sudo service kdm stop
kills KDE and gives a console.
sudo service gdm start
causes Gnome to start.
But, Gnome's login screen doesn't have a control which allows another DE to be selected.
Opening a Konsole and running sudo gdmsetup doesn't work because it binds to user "nobody", not root, and everything on the dialog is disabled.
In a Gnome konsole I can use sudo service kdm start and reboot and the gnome login starts KDE.

From it I opened a Konsole and removed gdm and unity, and after they were removed I used sudo apt-get autoremove to remove all dependencies.

I have KDE4's desktop back.

I may try a Unity LiveCD, but I certainly won't try to activate Unity in a Maverick guest OS.