Is there any hope to bring back Unity on Ubuntu 17.10?    Personally, I (still) don't like Gnome. The main reason I like Unity is for the top bar integration (and the Alt suggestions).  I just couldn't find any good extensions for Gnome to do that.  I upgraded from 16.10 to 17.04 and then 17.10 (which came with Gnome). Everything went fine, but I just want Unity back...  How to do that?    I already tried:  ionicabizau@notebook:~$ sudo apt install unity [sudo] password for ionicabizau:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done unity is already the newest version (7.5.0+17.10.20171010-0ubuntu1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
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Now, that Ubuntu 17.10 is out, and Unity 7 is replaced with Gnome 3, is there a way to install and use Unity7?   I know Unity is still in the repositories, so it should be possible, right?
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When I open Ubuntu Software, and check the installed software, I found that there are 2 different versions of GNOME runtime (3.26 and 3.28).   How to check which one of them is running? Is it OK to uninstall one of them (the one that is not used)?  INFO:  I am using Ubuntu 18.04 gnome-shell --version gives: GNOME Shell 3.28.4
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I've installed the latest 17.10 Ubuntu and then used   sudo apt install gnome-session   to get rid of Ubuntu's modifications, as described .  Although I prefer to have a vanilla GNOME experience, Ubuntu's  is very appealing. Unfortunately, I can't find this theme in GNOME Tweaks. The only GNOME-Shell theme that is present there is GNOME's default one.  Does somebody know a convenient way to install Ubuntu's new GNOME-Shell theme?
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I just upgraded my System to 14.04.  After restarting when the update was finished I did not see any menu bars or panels.   Right clicking and opening a terminal via ctrl+alt+t is not possible. However I can access the terminal via alt+F1. I already tried out installing the unity-desktop again but it didn't change anything .  Do you have any suggestions?
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I was recently playing around with Ubuntu 11.04 (Ah, the last version of Ubuntu to use Gnome 2 in the background) and I noticed this:      As you can see its the "Unity" "File Edit View..." menu in GNOME 2. It's available as an indicator addon in 11.04.  Now what I'm asking is how do I get this integrated menu to the top bar in GNOME Fallback/Classic in Ubuntu 12.04? As it will be a great addition on my custom distro. Its also good for saving space on smaller screens like on my netbook. (Wink wink, nudge nudge. Hmm, maybe thats why he wants the answer)   It would also be nicer if it hid when the mouse isn't over it, but that's just a perk, but it would be nice ;)  I can confirm that the answer by tabakisp works! Thank you tabakisp!
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How can I install Gnome Desktop on Ubuntu 15.04 with unity? Don't want to make a new clean install-- Any idea? Can't find any information about it!
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I've installed Ubuntu 18.04, and everything worked excellent until I decided to try Unity desktop. Bottom line - I've uninstalled unity desktop completely. But! I have some stuff that didn't recover to previous state. First is the login screen that have changed, and I want to bring back the gnome native login screen.  Second is the Lock screen (that is shown on wake up). Before unity it was the gnome's one, that you can change it's background in the background properties.  After unity it changed to annoying login form that doesn't work if the keyboard layout is not english, and you just can't switch between layouts in this form and all the window around it. So if before sleep I was using hebrew or russian layout, on wake up I just cant log back in, and I have to restart the pc.  How can I switch back to normal gnome stuff? Thanks!
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In previous versions of Netbook Remix I was able to disable the netbook-launcher and just have a blank desktop.  I liked the speed of the Netbook version but not the interface, this worked well for me.   How can I remove Unity?  It would also be useful to have removal instructions for all versions of Ubuntu.
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I am using Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 for the moment and I am asking myself if – through the future upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 – my Ubuntu GNOME will be exactly the same as the official main flavor, since it will adopt GNOME again, or if there will be two different flavors with GNOME.  What do you think?
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that it will drop Unity 7 from Ubuntu 18.04 onwards, reverting back to the Gnome desktop environment. I know all the larger desktop environments quite well, Gnome, KDE and Xfce; however, Unity is the one I am more comfortable with and on which I I feel more productive.   I would therefore like to know if there any desktop environments forked from Unity 7 that could be installed on Ubuntu. I understand we are still one year away from the shift, but it is never too early to test the alternatives and eventually choose a project to contribute to.
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I am running Ubuntu 15.04. I installed GNOME on top of that. Now I am using GNOME Shell. I heard 3.16 has many improvement. I am thinking about upgrading. My question is that, if I upgrade to GNOME 3.16 will I be able to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu (15.10) when it arrives?
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I'm new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general).  Sometimes when looking at programs in the Ubuntu Software Center, I see things about the programs being 'for the GTK+ environment', or 'for GNOME', or a whole lot of other things.  All I know is that I've got Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and what I'm seeing through my monitor appears to be the controversial Unity interface.  What are these other things I see mentioned in the descriptions of programs (such as KDE, GTK, QT, GNOME, GNOME 'shell', etc.)?  Are they Linux GUIs that are alternatives to Unity?  Are they dependencies that I need to have?    I've spent the last several months getting used to Ubuntu in its present form (though I confess, I have played around with Compiz, which is fun as hell).  Will these other things completely turn my world upside down if I use them?
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This might already be answered, but I can't find it.   I am getting a bit bored of the traditional purple feel of unity and I would like something new. Where can I find more Unity themes?  I have already tried synaptic, but could not find anything. I would rather avoid people's personal PPA's.
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I started by searching guides. I found  but neither of the main methods works anymore in 11.10.   The first solution, I have created the desktop file, however the file location given as .gconf-&gt; desktop-&gt; unity-&gt; launcher -&gt; favourites no longer exists. I can get to /home/sayth/.gconf/desktop but there is no longer a unity folder. The second solution described right-clicking the desktop and creating a launcher. Right-clicking the desktop no longer produces a "create a launcher" option.   I manually installed geany 0.21 as the one in the repo's is outdated. It's installed and working correctly, and is executing from /usr/local/bin/geany.  How can I add it to the launcher?
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Please could you tell me where can I find the File Manager Preferences in Ubuntu ... (now for 16:04 LTS).  The menu bar has disappeared from Nautilus, as also have the resize handles and the top-bar right-click menu (except for 'Close').  The window gets a little smaller every time I open it, it's gradually disappearing and I can't presently correct it.  I'm using Gnome not Unity, so the fixes for unity don't work.  I would have preferred to add these observations as comments, but I still have too few reputations to do that, so have to ask a new copy of the same question instead.
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I am running Ubuntu 14.10 and I am trying to get the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for Linux (which apparently is 11.2), I am selecting the option for APT for Ubuntu 10.04+ here:    But when I click the Launch Application button after hitting the Download button:    I just get this in the Ubuntu Software Center:   So my main questions are, why is this happening? Can I fix this? And how can I get the latest version of Adobe Flash Player if I can't fix this?
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I am running Gnome3, but I had the same problem with Unity, on Ubuntu 12.04.  I have a fairly elaborate setup I enjoy using day-to-day. A LibreOffice spreadsheet with everyone's extension numbers; a window with reference data I use regularly; two mulit-tabbed Konsole/Terminal windows with several remote systems sessions, firefox with a set of open tabs, and so on. But whenever I log out, when I return, I must set up everything from scratch. I remember the good 'ol days, when I rebooted, I'd re-log in, and all my windows came back up in the same places as they were when I logged out, and my Konsole/Term would come up with the same remote logins as before.... I'd have to re -setup  some of my programs, but that's better than having to move every win into place, and resize them, etc.  How do I get this functionality back?