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Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY UBUNTU 11.10 and UNITY SPECIAL EDITION UBUNTUUBUNTU 11.1011.10 andand UNITYUNITY Full Circle Magazine is neither affiliated, with nor endorsed by, Canonical Ltd. How-To Full Circle How-To THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU COMMUNITY Testing for Unity Support p.06 Editorial p.01 Tweak the Unity Desktop p.08 Installing dconf-editor p.08 Change the Icon Theme p.08 Whitelist for Notifications p.08 Update the Ocelot p.07 Unity Overview p.01 Use the Right Terms p.05 Create a Desktop Shortcut p.09 One Conf Sync p.07 Bring Back File Search p.09 Enable Third Party Sources p.07 Disable 'For Download' p.09 Additional Drivers p.07 Add Places as Quicklists p.10 11.10 Feature List p.02 Opinion p.17 Disable Overlay Scrollbars p.10 Stop Zeitgeist Logging p.11 Bypass Software Centre p.11 Security in 11.10 p.14 Hide Mounted Drives p.11 Add Users to Groups p.14 Configuring Unity p.03 Unity and HUD p.18 Get More AppIndicators p.11 Fix 'Untrusted Packages' p.15 Fallback to Gnome Panels p.12 Disable Guest Login p.16 Change LightDM Greeter p.13 Home Folder Encryption p.16 Gnome Compositing Fix p.13 Explore the Unity Dash p.04 Revew: Simplify Your Life p.20 Reset Unity To Defaults p.13 The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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EDITORIALEDITORIAL // OVERVIEWOVERVIEW OFOF 11.1011.10 andand UNITYUNITY Robin Catling What's the Plan? release of the Unity desktop This magazine created with: omething of an unusual across netbooks, desktops, and Special Edition this time, it his edition is intended as an laptops, alike. Sreally is special in that little all-round introduction to the of this material has appeared in TUbuntu 11.10 and Unity Full Circle Magazine before. combo. I've written and posted Our on-going Specials are much in the past on working with compilations of popular article the alternatives to Unity; in this series published in prior editions edition, we'll take a look at what of Full Circle. For this one, we're makes it unique, along with some out on a limb, running new of the tools and tips you can use articles, albeit on some familiar to ease into Unity without going topics we've touched on, for for the whole body-shop-and-chop example in the Q and A section radical re-build. Be aware that Foundation technology beneath, of the magazine. some of the settings and tools From this... (Ubuntu Netbook Re-mix) Canonical, Ubuntu's distributor, we're playing here with can break has made the decision to go with This is also the first not overseen your Unity desktop. “Unity is a shell for GNOME, even if its own distinctive user interface. by our esteemed Editor, Mr it isn't GNOME-Shell. We're As you'll see when we look at the Tucker. You are now at the mercy 11.10 to Unity committed to the principles and future and the HUD, it's not of the demented genius usually values of GNOME. ” finished yet. in charge (if you can call it that) Unity first appeared in 2010 in the of the Full Circle Podcast. original Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook -Mark Shuttleworth, Edition, a re-spin which Ubuntu Founder While that show is enjoying its attempted, much like Sugar OS Winter break, try not to be too and others, to provide a simplified, Ubuntu 11.10 marks the full alarmed by the random mind of friendlier interface on the commitment to Unity in place of the man who brought you smaller, vertically challenged alternative layouts; GNOME-2 is Mallard Man and Northern Star displays of the first generation history, the radical GNOME-Shell is Trek. netbooks. For many people, these an acquired taste and alternatives Normal service will be resumed were the first computers they had such as KDE, Xfce and others are shortly. Enjoy. ever owned. only slowly gaining ground. ...to this (Ubuntu 11.10) Robin Catling Ubuntu 11.04 was the official Even though there is GNOME full circle magazine: ubuntu 11.10 and unity 1 contents ^ UBUNTUUBUNTU 11.1011.10 FEATUREFEATURE LISTLIST from the Update Manager; your Feature List graphical user interfaces (GUIs) settings, files and bookmarks will on computers) stay the same. It works. Mostly. For the desktop edition: ● Unity improvements and bug I will qualify that statement as the ● Linux Kernel 2.6.40 (since fixing over 11.04 in-place upgrade worked updated to 3.0.0) flawlessly on three of the four ● Unity usability, accessibility, laptops, a mixed bag of old and ● GNOME-3, but with Unity in automated and stress testing – new. Back up your data and place of Gnome Shell so it is now much more robust settings before you begin. ● GTK 3 (GTK+, or the GIMP ● Mozilla Thunderbird as the The Unity launcher and dash are Toolkit, is a multi-platform default mail client Release the Ocelot! distinctive features in this release; toolkit for creating graphical defaulting to Unity 3-D with a user interfaces) ● Déja Dup application for backup tasks The latest version of Ubuntu, fallback to Unity 2-D. There is no ● LightDM as default login 11.10, eccentrically codenamed GNOME desktop installed in this version. You can of course, opt to manager ● Utilities for building localized 'Oneiric Ocelot', was released on CDs October 13, 2011. go Kubuntu (KDE) or Xubuntu (Xfce) as your desktop of choice. ● X.org 1.10 (the X Window ● Backports package selection What's new? System, often referred to Will it work with my merely as X, is a complete, was integrated into the UI hardware? cross-platform and free client- You can see the list of new ● Improvements to Software features on the right. There's server system for managing Among the FAQs, this is answered Center's Reviews and Ratings more detail on the official Ubuntu functions website, or you can take the with: “Ubuntu 11.10 is built to take advantage of the very latest snazzy visual tour. You can ● Improved Multi-arch (allows 32- technologies, but it should work download the latest builds in bit applications to run in 64-bit) desktop or server edition, 32-bit on most desktops, laptops and or 64-bit, directly from the Ubuntu netbooks too.” Although this fails ● Python updated to version 2.7 Download page. to point out the need for a 3-D and 3.2 hardware accelerated video card You can follow the same upgrade for Unity 3-D. ● New artwork. process as normal. Simply upgrade full circle magazine: ubuntu 11.10 and unity 2 contents ^ CONFIGURINGCONFIGURING UNITYUNITY ININ UBUNTUUBUNTU 11.1011.10 without you. That means filing Scopes and Lenses bugs, proposing new use cases with mock ups, and of course: ince the 11.04 release, Unity running the defaults throughout has moved from the idea of your day.” – ppetraki, 11/22/2011 S“Places” to a richer set of “Scopes and Lenses.” Scopes are None of which actually answers data sources, able to tap into any the question. on-line or off-line data, encom- passing a set of filters and some Well, you could try elsewhere on standard interfaces that can Ask Ubuntu, where there are generate categorized results for a indexes for both 11.10 and 11.04 search. Lenses are various ways to versions. present the data that come from Scopes. For the hardware-challenged user ou may be a little disappoin- desktops, but as soon as you use needing to configure Unity 2D, Ubuntu intends for Scopes to have ted with this one, since it is Compiz Config Settings Manager you have a separate index. a range of filtering options, such as ratings, “show me all the 5 star Yreally about how little you (CCSM), you have basically opted Most of the answers listed there apps in the Software Center can configure; indeed, how little out of Unity's future. The bugs you involve the use of Compiz Config please,” and categories “…that Canonical, the company behind report will not matter since you're Settings Manager, dconf-editor or are games or media related”. Ubuntu, wants you to configure not running the defaults, and any some elements of Ubuntu Tweak. Unity. input you may have will be skewed There's more about lenses over Be aware that many of these can You'll find various opinions on this by the customized user experience the page. break your system and render it subject, the most telling at Ask you've devised.” unusable. What they still don't do Ubuntu, a generally excellent So there! Yah-boo sucks! If you is open up many features of knowledge-base, where a Join Full Circle on: want to change it, you're not part Unity's behavior since, well, spokesperson for the Unity ● Google Plus of the future.