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Installing Unity on Debian

I'm a former Ubuntu Unity user, and currently running Debian Squeeze. I love Debian's stability over Ubuntu, but I do miss being able to switch between applications use Super+1,2,3 etc. Has anyone successfully gotten Unity running on Debian Squeeze?
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Ubuntu / Unity attach script to Launcher

I recently downloaded IntelliJ IDEA and start the app by running . idea.sh. The app appears in the launcher while I'm running it, but for some reason when I right click on it I don't get a 'Lock to Launcher' option like I do with other apps. How do…
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How can I access menu bar items alike hud (unity)?

Currently I have archlinux installed, but I used Ubuntu in the past. What I really miss from ubuntu is the HUD from unity which allows hotkey searching for top menu bar items from the current application, without the need for using the mouse or…
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How to add a Flatpak's app to Gnome 3 auto-starts?

I installed telegram-desktop via Flatpak and would like to auto start the messenger when logging into Gnome 3 (or Unity as a fact). Is there a way to robustly do so?
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Suddenly, I Can't login with correct password (greeter & tty)

This might be a duplicate of other password related questions but it's somehow eccentric. I have 3 accounts in my Ubuntu 12.10 system (one standard and two administrators). One of the administrator accounts is my main development account and…
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Why does installing different desktop environments break things?

So something you often see on blogs and such are articles about how to install different DEs on your favorite Linux distributions. It kinda bothers me that people talk so casually about doing this, especially when they're addressing novice users,…
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Key for the letter "o" stopped working, works only with Shift, Linux

A few days ago, I found out that the O key on my keyboard doesn't work. I have seen a few similar topics with this problem, but none of them seemed to be solved. When I tap the key - nothing happens. When I hold it - outputs "oooooo". When I use…
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Screenshot in Unity/Ubuntu within VirtualBox

I'm trying to take a screenshot of Firefox running on Unity/Ubuntu 16.04 inside VirtualBox 5.1.2. Pressing Prt Scrn pops open a little app called Screenshot but the screenshot shown is only ever the desktop, with no application windows visible. My…
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Can I set a gnome keyboard shortcut to be a prefix key, like in emacs, tmux or screen?

I would like to setup some Gnome keyboard shortcuts to be a prefix-key, so that I can add several shortcuts with the same prefix. Eg. I'd like to be able to have Super+x be a prefix key, with the next letter determining the application to…
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Separate programs - Remain at their designated monitor

Given that the external and primary monitor always has the same resolution, is it possible to have two programs say VLC and a browser open in their separate designated screens? It is worth mentioning that the external monitor and internal monitor…
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How to add additional Gnome-Shell and Unity workspace navigation shortcuts

I am very familiar with (and love) the workspace switching in Gnome-Shell and Unity (using Ctrl+Alt+[Up/Down/Right/Left]), but being a vim fan, it would also be great if I could add an additional shortcut which would use the vim keys for navigating,…
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Alternatives to HUD

Are there alternatives to HUD (from unity) which work together with different window managers (especially with tiling WM's)?
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How can I install the unity-desktop on Red Hat?

I am using a computer system with the gnome desktop system, with which I am not able to work properly (resizing of windows does not work etc). Therefore I would like to install the unity-desktop. Is that possible on Redhat (Red Hat Enterprise Linux…
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Auto running bash script on login

I wanted to make a script which ran automatically on login so I put it into the file ~/bash.profile, but it didn't run. When I put it in bashrc, it ran on opening a terminal. What I was doing in the script was accessing a file in the pictures…
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Unity: Stop Dock Repopulation at Restart

Unity is currently the default window manager on my system, a window manager that's available for many Linux distributions, meaning this question isn't Ubuntu-specific. I have disabled the dock's autohide using debconf, but apart from that I haven't…
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