Okay found it: Open ComizConfig Settings Manager -> Click Ubuntu Utility Plugin, filed under Desktop -> Under the behavior tab, there will be a “launcher” option where you can configure how it gets hidden, if at all.
Did that work?
Also, I don’t know what happened, but now when I Alt-Tab, there is an icon to show the desktop that wasn’t there before. Alt-Tab only showed active/open programs, how do I remove the desktop option from Alt-Tab?
Tried again (Compiz is what I’d found browsing for a solution), but it’s not the behaviour I’m looking for. After setting it to ‘never’, it doesn’t auto-hide after a period of time, but if I maximize a window or move one to the left side of the screen it disappears until I click the edge.
I want to find a way to keep it there permanently. If something moves behind it, I want it to stay on top. If I maximize a window, I want the left edge to be at the side of the launcher, not the side of the monitor.
Also, other than Ctrl-D, is there a way to get ‘show desktop’ to work? I’m used to the nice icon/area of Windows and it would be very convenient.
That’s the default behaviour in 12.04.
Ubuntu Tweak, if installed, will allow you to set a hot corner to do it.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is in final beta. Is there anything between 11.1 and that that has the feature? Update manager is silent on new versions (i.e. when I check for updates, no new version is shown as available).
I’m not seeing Ubuntu Tweak in the default software center.
(speaking of software center, is there a setting I’m missing that would prevent “Ubuntu User” from showing up in results?
Or you can stick these into a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
I have been using Mint 11, I started with Ubuntu but Mint looks and feels more polished to me. Yes, I know it’s based on Ubuntu. There is a show desktop button but I never use it since I have two monitors and set up three virtual desktops. It’s a dual boot machine with XP on another drive. I didn’t see it mentioned, maybe missed it, but with the price of hard drives these days it’s cheap to add another. I use a partition on the Linux drive to back up XP files and the XP drive to back up Linux files. Along with external backups I feel pretty well covered.
Hardware wise Linux has come a long way, I have the two monitors, two printers, scanner, mouse and drawing tablet and it all worked. The tablet has pressure support, which I use in Gimp for painting. It could use a bit more tablet support but it works well enough.
My machine is 6 years old and doesn’t seem too happy with Gnome 3, which I tried with Mint 12. It’s included with Ubuntu as well so that could be a performance problem if your machine is still a bit sluggish.
Loaded up Mint 12 in a new virtual machine today.
One problem so far, I install Chrome with no problems, then I shut down the VM. When I started the VM again, Chrome was nowhere to be found. I had to reinstall it. Why did it not get saved? Anything installed through Ubuntu stayed put.
did you run a Live Disk Image…or did you install it on a virtual disk? Did it reboot to the .ISO or to the virtual disk?
Honestly, I have no idea for both of your questions.
This is the file I downloaded, if it matters. I don’t think I did anything differently with this virtual machine than with the one for Ubuntu. It never went through any installation process, like asking for language or location or whatever else it does. I don’t think I did anything like that with Ubuntu either, but I suppose I could be misremembering what exactly I did.
Okay…a VM is nearly identical to a physical computer. If you tell it to boot from an .ISO image, there’s a good chance you were just running the OS from that image…Any changes you make will go away when you reboot, as nothing is stored in permanent storage when working that way.
You need to:
- Boot using the .iso image
- find and select the installer (probably an icon on the desktop
- finish the installation
- disconnect the .iso image (this is important, otherwise, that’s what’ll boot the next time)
- reboot and test.