I had a very similar problem initially. Unity 7 looked strange after installing gnome shell. Logging into gnome or gnome on Wayland worked well except for the scaling issue you mentioned. Gnome tweak tool has a scaling slider which works solves that problem when set to a factor of 2. I am on a QHD Dell XPS 13 "project Sputnik" machine.
Hope that helps. Alex On Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 16:58 Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Olivier, thank you very much for your help, but, unfortunately, it did > not work. See below. > > On 04/30/2017 06:35 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Till Kamppeter > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have switched from Yakkety to Zesty right after the release and this > >> replaced my very stable Unity 7 by Unity 8. After the second crash of my > >> desktop (required a system reboot) I switched over to GNOME. > > > > Do you mean that the unity7 entry disappeared from the login options, > > or that the default changed to unity8? Either way, that sounds like a > > bug, unity8 was never meant to become default or replace unity7 > > altogether in zesty. > > > > After logging in for the first time after booting the updated machine, I > got a desktop which looks like the old one. I was not sure whether it > was Unity 7 or Unity 8 using the old configuration of my Unity 7 > desktop. So I did > > dpkg -l | grep unity > > and saw that most packages have an 8.x version number. This made me > assuming that I am under Unity 8. > > > > >> To do so I installed "gnome-session", then logged out, clicked on the > Ubuntu > >> logo near the user name, and selected GNOME and logged in again, getting > >> rewarded with a shiny GNOME desktop. > >> > >> Note that "GNOME with Wayland" does not work for me. I simply get a > black > >> screen (I have a 2nd-gen Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Intel GPU). > > > > Try removing unity8-desktop-session. That did the trick for me. > > > > I tried it now and the result was that I could not log in into any > desktop any more. I had to go to a text console and install it again. > Then logging in into the desktops worked again. > > Without unity8-desktop-session after selecting any desktop (Ubuntu > default, GNOME, GNOME/Wayland) and then entering the password I got a > black screen with an error message (for a second or so, too fast to read > the error message) and then got back to the login screen. > > Switching desktops also causes a problem with HiDPI screens (mine is QHD > 2560x1440). The magnification of the text changes and I end up with very > small text. I have to go to the Ubuntu default (aka Unity 7), call the > System Settings there, choose the Displays section and set the zoom > there to 2.0. This zoom is missing in the Display section of the GNOME > System Settings. And the "Large Text" in Universal Accessibility of > GNOME's System Settings zooms too much, it would need a slider to adjust > the zoom factor. > > > > >> I tried the same on my Artful VM (QEMU), but there the LightDM has no > Ubuntu > >> logo at the user name. How do I switch desktops there? > >> > > Anyone could help me with this one? > > Till > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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