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== What to do when it Crashes ==

As this is prealpha code it can crash sometimes, unchecking the Unity plugin in CCSM will stop unity from running.

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=== Non crash bugs ===
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=== Crash bugs ===

If you get crashing issues you might want to enable apport by editing /etc/default/apport and settings enabled=1 and restarting you computer. Once activated the system should detect crashes and prompt you to report those

Unity

The wiki documentation is targeting technical users, if you want to get an overview of unity you might be interested ready those:

How to test Unity 3.0 (compiz based)

This section documents how you can try out Unity 3.0 on your Ubuntu system.

Note: This software is pre-alpha. You should be comfortable with being able to downgrade multiple packages if you want to go back to a stable desktop, otherwise we recommend not trying this on a production machine. Alpha 1 will have a more stable version.

Limitations and Tips

  • This version of Unity does NOT have Places or the Dash, these will come back for Alpha 2.
  • It's normal that clicking on the Ubuntu button does nothing.
  • The session to log in in GDM is now "Ubuntu Desktop"
  • For now, be sure to use Humanity or Humanity-Dark icon themes. Others will cause Unity 3.0 alpha to crash.

Natty

Unity is available in Natty . 

sudo apt-get install unity

Then restart Compiz or log out and log back into your desktop session. Finally start CompizConfig Settings Manager (/usr/bin/ccsm) and then search for and enable the Unity plugin!

On Maverick (10.10)

There is no backported version of the new Unity in maverick but you can built it from source as described in the natty section

How and where to file bugs

Non crash bugs

If you use the unity package in natty, run this command 

ubuntu-bug unity

It will collect the required details and send you to launchpad to write your bug description

(If you build unity from sources or want to use open a bug without ubuntu-bug please follow this guide)

Crash bugs

If you get crashing issues you might want to enable apport by editing /etc/default/apport and settings enabled=1 and restarting you computer. Once activated the system should detect crashes and prompt you to report those

How to Contribute to Unity

http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/ has instructions on how to get the code and hack on it.

Support

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