On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:56 PM, 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.
unity7 and unity8 can coexist, so this is not meaningful. >>> 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
