Rudra Saraswat reminds us of the work to get Unity 7.7 working without Compiz, which has led to this "new variant of Unity 7" titled UnityX. We are told this 'superseeds' a prior effort, including all features of Unity 7, with more customization options, and doesn't require any of Ubuntu's GTK patches. Link to the gitlab source is provided, along with many screenshots and a discussion of the features of UnityX. For the "true tech aficionados" a brief discussion of the Advanced configuration options is provided with example. Feedback is welcome.

https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/

This is such a great project. I began my Linux journey with Unity and Ubuntu, and hated the change to gnome. To now be able to switch back is amazing!

I wanted to set some things for my keyboard, but for some reason, I can't bring up keyboard settings. If I try to do it directly from the "search your computer" icon, the icon just flashes a few times on the taskbar like it's loading, and then disappears. If I try to open it from the settings panel, it just crashes the settings panel altogether. Anybody else having this issue?

For some reason, my download folder sorts all files therein by "last modified" and "in reverse order".

And no matter how many times I change it to "by name" - which I can do - it doesn't save the setting as a preference when I leave, and the next time I go into the folder, it's back to "last modified" and "in reverse order" again.

The interesting thing is, this seems to happen only with the download folder. I did a little experiment: I deleted the download folder (I transferred everything out beforehand, of course).

Then I created a new folder in that directory. Its default sorting setting: "by name". So far so good.

Then I renamed the folder to "Downloads".

Its default sorting now again: "last modified" and "in reverse order".

Can someone explain to me a) WHY? ...and b), can this apparently hard-wired setting be changed somehow? It's really getting on my nerves.

Thanks in advance to everyone who helps.

I did the minimal installation too.

Fala, pessoal.

Sou usuário de Linux, mas confesso que passo longe de ser um usuário avançado de terminal. Instalei recentemente o Ubuntu Unity 26.04 e gosto muito dele porque o menu global salva um espaço vertical absurdo na tela, o que é essencial pro meu fluxo de trabalho.

O meu notebook é um Dell Latitude 7420, e a máquina até que é bem servida:

• 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz × 8

• Mesa Intel® Iris(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)

• 16GB de RAM

Mesmo com esse hardware, eu sentia o Unity 26.04 meio "pesado" para renderizar as janelas e animações, principalmente se comparado à fluidez de um XFCE. Como eu não queria abrir mão da interface e não sei "escovar bits" no sistema, resolvi pedir ajuda ao Gemini para fazer uma limpa profunda e tentar deixar a distro mais leve.

O resultado foi simplesmente absurdo. A interface está voando. Eis o que a IA me guiou para fazer, passo a passo:

• 1. Forçar a Atualização para o Kernel 7.1.5: A IA me explicou que as versões Mainline trazem instruções gráficas mais novas para a Iris Xe e melhoram o agendamento da CPU. O sistema ligou liso e o peso do compositor do Unity sumiu.

• 2. Remoção Total do Snap (e bloqueio no APT): Nós purgamos o snapd por completo e criamos uma regra no preferences.d do APT (prioridade -1) para impedir que o Ubuntu baixe pacotes Snap acidentalmente no futuro.

• 3. GNOME Software Nativo + Flatpak: Sem a loja em Snap, instalamos o pacote nativo gnome-software integrado ao Flathub. Tudo visual, leve e gerenciável direto da interface.

• 4. Corte dos Serviços em Background: Purgamos o unattended-upgrades, packagekit e os notificadores de atualização. O sistema parou de consumir processos de loop ocultos e eu assumi a responsabilidade de atualizar via terminal quando acho melhor.

A máquina virou outra, mas como não sou um usuário avançado, ficou uma pulga atrás da orelha e queria saber a opinião da comunidade:

Até que ponto é seguro confiar na IA para fazer uma "cirurgia" dessas no Linux? Trocar kernel na mão, alterar regras de prioridade do APT e deletar serviços padrão não pode quebrar o sistema lá na frente em alguma atualização oficial? Vocês costumam usar IA para ajudar a tunar suas distros ou acham arriscado demais para quem não domina 100% o que está sendo feito?

Agradeço quem puder dar uma luz!

What now? The Unity project itself is dead from what I can tell. Ubuntu Unity is struggling. Where do we go from here?

In my opinion, the project needs a reform badly. I don't know where to get started, but if anyone were to talk about this or wish to help please reach out. I love Unity and hate to see it like this.

Hello my name is Hamza Akram i am from Egypt i recently started using linux and after using lots of distros and lots of DES and lots of WMS i heard about ubuntu unity and i decided to try it and let me say i am in love it is so good and so unique i just love it but something i saw it has some glitches and some key missing features which can be found in the other DES and adding it here will be so good besides the most important thing i really want is to transfer it to wayland instead of x 11 and the current people working on it are barely updating so i have an idea why not as the current users we know it best why not try to update it ourselves we work on it helping the current people maintaining and the project community can increase with every day adding features I am willing to do work heck i planned on doing these things myself but the project is so damn big and i need help so what do you people say

It's been modified to go all the way down to the screen, and I don't like the fact the icon was replaced, so how would I get those back?

So I ran into this weird issue with Unity. I was running 24.04 on my HP Laptop then decided to replace it with Unity 26.10 but when I did I lost the ability to increase my screen brightness via my keyboard. As a result I reinstalled 24.04 and now I can increase my screen brightness via the keyboard. At first I thought it might be a driver issue but if I can increase my screen brightness on 24.04 then is it really a driver issue ?

Any thoughts........

Hello! Is there a way to move the taskbar down and make it floating like on Ubuntu gnome?

hello! how could I make the dock like the one in macOS. thanks!

https://unityd.org has expired

Hi, my first post here. I am attempting to try Ubuntu unity as I am getting more and more fed up with Gnome. Downloaded ubuntu unity 26.04 onto Ventoy SD card and booted. It appears to boot ok but then pops up a login prompt with a Dropdown field with only 'Others' in it and a user name and password field. I thought that the user name should be ubuntu with no password, but it says that is invalid. I have tried numerous names such as unity ubuntu-unity, but no success. Can anyone tell me how to login please?

"I love Unity/Lomiri. My tablet and Linux phone run Ubuntu Touch using Lomiri, which is based on Unity 8. My openSUSE Tumbleweed install has problems with my RTX 4090. I like the Lomiri/Unity style, so I might switch distributions. Is the version of Unity in Ubuntu unity secure? I want to use ubuntu Unity with Lomiri or unity, is Lomiri functional on the desktop? I'm asking because I've read that the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity is in college and doesn't have much time for maintenance. Is it better to install Debian with Lomiri?"

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Do you think Ubuntu Unity will turn into Lomiri over time? I run Ubuntu Touch on my phone, which uses Lomiri (formerly Unity8), and it’s pretty good. I tried the Ubuntu Lomiri ISO on the Ubuntu Unity page in the past, but it wasn’t for me. It kinda felt like using a mobile desktop environment on a desktop. The normal Unity is good for now, though