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Unetbootin ubuntu 16.041/31/2024 Those running the Tahr on a fancy-pants HiDPI screen (such as a Retina Macbook) will notice a crisper looking desktop. In fact, the slick fade-in animation when toggling the lock is so damn smooth you’ll be hitting Super+L to see it in play again and again. The good news is that, perhaps more than any other change in this update, this is the one that has the wow factor. While that sounds like a trivial change, the road to implementing it has been anything but, with an entirely new stack of code having to be written to handle it. Like the look of the Unity Greeter? Well, good news for you: the same look has been applied to the lock screen in this release. Integrated Lock Screen The new Unity lock screen in action Once installed, navigate to the Unity section inside, hit the ‘Launcher’ tab and check the box next to minimise on click. To turn it on you’ll first need to grab the CCSM app through the Software Centre. Many users have disliked the window management in Unity, specifically the inability to minimise a running application by clicking on its icon in the launcher.įor 14.04 Canonical has, begrudgingly, relented to the defeating request for it by implementing it as an ‘unsupported’ extra that’s hidden from view. If I asked you to list longstanding issues with Unity chances are this one would make the list. Minimise on Click Minimise on click in action But if you’d rather they were closer to the app they belong to you now only need to tick the Local Menus option located in System Settings > Appearance > Behaviour.ĭon’t worry about them getting in the way of moving windows either - they’re really rather clever. Bear in mind it’s not officially stable (but unofficially it’s pretty much rock solid) so take it for a test drive before installing. Read on while you wait to find out more of what’s in store.ĭownload Ubuntu 14.04 Beta Application Menu Options Locally integrated menu option should please manyįor the first time since the introduction of Unity on the desktop Ubuntu is offering users a choice of where application menus appear.īy default menus continue to show in the top panel. You can find out more for yourself by downloading a copy of the beta using the link below. But it behaves like an entirely different beast altogether. ![]() The long-term goal of a convergent Shangri-La won’t be reached quicker by expending energy on a desktop headed for the digital dustbin.Īnd so the “Trusty Tahr”, to give it its friendly codename, may look a lot like last October’s release of 13.10, and the 13.04 release before that. To be clear: all of that work will eventually benefit the desktop. ![]() With Canonical’s engineering and design teams commandeered for mobile, the desktop releases have felt a bit neglected. Forwarding this goal has come at the expense of working on the desktop. Most of you reading this will be well versed in Canonical’s mobile ambitions. But when it comes to features there have been few to get fanatical about.Īnd with Ubuntu 14.04 being a Long Term Support release - which are hardly known for shaking things up - you may be expecting more of the same. Sure, each has seen iterative improvements upon the last, and the usual glut of ‘under the hood fixes’ and app updates have made them worthy updates (though far from compelling). The last few releases of Ubuntu have been, to put it bluntly, boring. ‘The last few releases of Ubuntu may have been boring - but this one is anything but.’
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