Looks like the tutorial thinks its on a phone instead of a desktop. It's supposed to skip that screen on the desktop. I'm guessing at one point you changed the windowed mode to be staged or something?
I'll look at if we can be cleverer. ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1564351 Title: "Swipe from the left edge to open the launcher" - do not work on the desktop Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Can not unlock my desktop, swipe is not work. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: unity8 8.12+16.04.20160330-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-16.32-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Mar 31 19:29:50 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-11 (19 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160307) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=ru PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity8 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1564351/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp