pauljwells
June 5th, 2011, 01:46 PM
On my HP Netbook, Unity will run, but uses too much cpu, slows down the system and makes it run too hot.
I installed Unity-2d, which is a better compromise for this machine but unlike Unity-3d the launcher only shows when you mouse over the top-left corner rather than at the left edge of the screen.
This is a bug and the devs have written a fix that will be included in 11.10 but I went ahead and compiled a set of debs to add this feature to the current code.
They are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18375146/unity-2d-edge-detect.tar.gz
Best to install via terminal:
sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb
If you want to go back to the defaults all you have to do is 'mark all upgrades' in synaptic.
If you run unity-2d and you find that the first item on the launcher keeps losing its tooltip please add yourself to this bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/758787
I installed Unity-2d, which is a better compromise for this machine but unlike Unity-3d the launcher only shows when you mouse over the top-left corner rather than at the left edge of the screen.
This is a bug and the devs have written a fix that will be included in 11.10 but I went ahead and compiled a set of debs to add this feature to the current code.
They are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18375146/unity-2d-edge-detect.tar.gz
Best to install via terminal:
sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb
If you want to go back to the defaults all you have to do is 'mark all upgrades' in synaptic.
If you run unity-2d and you find that the first item on the launcher keeps losing its tooltip please add yourself to this bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/758787