Despite that I am able to create Unity launchers for Google Keep, Play Music, Inbox & Drawing; the same does not work for Google Calendar. I added Google Calendar to my Chrome as an application from extensions.google.com as I did for others. Any ideas about how to add Google Calendar into Unity as a launcher? … Read more
I downloaded SublimeText and placed it in my home folder. I locked sublimetext to the Unity launcher, but when I restart my PC the icon disappears from the launcher. Why is this happening? Can I solve this somehow? Answer A .desktop file is needed. One way is to install sublime text editor via webupd8 ppa. … Read more
I am trying to rearrange the icons on my Unity launcher. Sometimes I can just drag and drop an icon without difficulty. But other times when I attempt to drag an icon all icons on the launcher slide together. Why is that? What can I do to make sure my dragging and dropping performs one … Read more
How can I make unity launcher remembers which apps are pinned to it for each workspace and automatically changes the Launcher when I switch between workspaces. Knowing that I’m using Ubuntu 15.04 Answer Unity LauncherSwitcher (LSwitcher) is a new tool which can be used to to control which apps should be pinned on the Launcher … Read more
I found the user interface of the TWM desktop environment boring and hard to use. How can I remove it? Answer sudo apt-get remove twm This worked. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : sigdelsanjog , Answer Author : sigdelsanjog
As per my project requirement, I need to hide the Unity launcher (if present) automatically on startup of an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. If I run the command: dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode 1 into the terminal it works. But as I mentioned already I need to hide the Unity launcher automatically on startup of an Ubuntu 14.04 … Read more
This question already has answers here: How to add programs to the Unity Launcher or Ubuntu Dock? (2 answers) Closed 6 years ago. I’m running MAME on my Ubuntu desktop, and I’d like to pin it to my launcher. The problem is that MAME always runs in fullscreen with no option to minimize it. What … Read more
In Unity launcher (icons on left side), is it possible to configure a .desktop file to, for instance, run something else if Control is pressed. For instance, Gimp below The file gimp.desktop in /usr/share/applications shows (excerpt) [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=GIMP Image Editor GenericName=Image Editor Comment=Create images and edit photographs Exec=gimp-2.8 %U TryExec=gimp-2.8 Icon=gimp Terminal=false … Read more
From noob to all… Is it possible to have py2.x beside 3.4, preferably with launcher icons for both? If not, how can I start py2 IDE from command line? I prefer py3, but need py2 and it’s modules for some projects. I’m using Ubuntu 14.04. and not afraid of terminal. Thanks in advance! Answer Ubuntu … Read more
I installed Chrome via a PPA in order to get the proper codecs/DRM stuff required to watch Netflix on Ubuntu (15.10). Now if I run $ google-chrome-stable from the command line it works great. But I’d prefer to not have to run it from the command line every time so once it was open I … Read more
