On 27 September 2012 19:27, Gordon Scott <gor...@gscott.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > I'm trying Unity in an attempt to get to work sensibly with it, but at > present it's driving me mad. > > Hopefully someone can please help me deal with some of the worst > irritations before I throw the whole thing out. I've been web searching, > but can't yet find answer to any of this. > > How can I turn off transparency on the Dash? > I hate transparency at the best of times, but the Dash > seems particularly hard to read. Much of the time it's > hard to tell what's on the Dash and what's on the window behind it. > > Dash searches not really working? > One of the features I thought might be OK is the search box on the > Dash, but so often it just doesn't come up with anything useful, > sometimes even when I know it's there! > As an example, I _know_ wget is on this machine, but Dash doesn't > show it even if I type "wget". If there some feature or option I need > to get it to see stuff that exists? wg<tab> in a terminal works OK. > > How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way? > In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar > with top-level headings like "Graphics", "Programming" and so on. > Right now I find nothing like that on Unity, but I feel sure there > must > be a way .. dedicated lens or something? > > How to tidy the launcher? > I've minimized the of icons on the launcher so I can see a fair > percentage of them, but I'd like to remove most of the clutter. > It's too full even before I open any applications. > That's compounded somewhat, also, by the tooltip hovers vanishing > after scanning just a couple of icons, and at present many icons are > unfamiliar. > > This next one's no so much irritant as vital.... > > Can I set up so that I can type in a background window whilst watching > the results in a foreground window? > I use that a a lot for testing, but can't presently see any way that > it's possible > with Unity. > > Thanks, > Gordon. > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshire<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire> > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > ------------------------------**------------------------------**-- > I'm not going to try to address each of these in turn, though I could, but there are some great resources out there already which will tell you. What I will say is, stick with it for a week, a bit like learning OSX after having had Windows inflicted on you for several years. Once you do get used to it, you start wondering why you did things any other way. I was initially as sceptical about Unity as I was about the Olympics, and can happily report I was wrong about both. I now love hitting one super key, typing (usually) the first or second letter of what I am looking for and that being it, rather than traversing endless cascading menus. I tried (and liked) Mate, Cinnnamon, various KDE versions and various other efforts. After several months of experimentation in my work environment (I have an enlightened employer who permits me to use whatever OS I like as long as I can conform to security constraints and spot checks) I have returned to, and am loving Ubuntu again, and now with Unity - which I really did not think would eve be the case. At work, I now run 3 x 23" monitors on a HP Z400 workstation with 8 cores, 16Gb Ram and a single, cheapo Sapphire radeon card. I struggled to find an Nvidia solution which would provide the same triple display at any kind of reasonable cost, and have now freed myself from the xinerama/compiz lockout loop. As it happens, after I discovered some love for Unity, popey posted this: http://youtu.be/xA9EHaNc2VI Which for me added the icing on the cake. Enjoy. /jfk -- Jack Knight
-- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
