Questions tagged [unity-control-center]
28 questions
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System Settings doesn't close and continuously changes focus to itself from any other window
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 from 14.04.
When I run System Settings, my CPU usage goes to 100%, and the Settings window always remains in focus. I tried to open System Monitor to kill System Settings, but the focus kept on changing back to…
acceptedfreak
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Screen-Sharing "no network selected for sharing" problem in unity control center (18.04)
I'm using ubuntu unity desktop
unity control center > sharing > screen sharing > no network selected for sharing
connection is working fine / but don't show in sharing setting / please check screenshot
ubuntu 18.04 (but work fine in default…
Wai Yan Myo Hsat
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unity-control-center icons missing when using xsession desktop with awesome window manager
I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 on amd64. I'm using xsession ("User Defined Session") as my desktop, so that everything is started from my ~/.xsession script. This script starts the awesome window manager and various other programs, including…
Nate Eldredge
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Ubuntu unity-control-center shows high virtual memory
Ubuntu 16.04, unity-control-center network is requesting a 113G virtual memory which I find unusual, not sure how to debug this or how to solve this. I understand that virtual memory has nothing to do with the amount of physical memory being used,…
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Made a mistake and deleted just some of the files in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ how do I restore the files?
I was going some testing and decided to delete some library files in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
(Horrible idea I know) The side effect of deleting those files is that I am unable to open the gnome or unity control center for Ubuntu.
When I open…
MSPO
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System Settings are broken, Ubuntu 16.04
When I run System Settings, I see a dialog box:
Sorry, Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error.
If you notice further problems, try restarting the computer.
I tried:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt remove…
nikkou
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Segmentation fault when I try to launch unity-control-center
When I enter the command unity-control-center it returns:
unity-control-center
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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How to restore system default settings in ubuntu 16.04?
I am trying to restore the unity control center but there are always missing items even after I run:
sudo apt install unity-control-center
and
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
And this is what I get:
You can see some items are missing, like…
Hass
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16.04 System Settings not displaying
Clean installed 16.04. Previously running 14.04 mostly without problems.
Box is an HP Z420 with a non-std display adapter (AMD Radeon R7 240).
Lone Ubuntu only (no other OSes).
Problem: System Settings won't display its GUI, whether launched from…
k9743
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Clicking User Accounts in the System Settings breaks everything
Clicking on other settings like Displays or Keyboards works fine, the new window opens and I can change the settings.
But when I click on User Accounts, it does not open, and I am unable to click on anything else, and the window will not close and…
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Can't install freeglut3-dev or libglfw-dev due to unity-control-center dependency issues
I'm trying to install 2 different packages: libglfw-dev and freeglut3-dev
When I run:
sudo apt-get install libglfw-dev
or
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
I get the following error:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you…
Joel Allen
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How do I develop for the Unity Control Center?
I found no source on how to create an entry in Unity Control Center. Is it even possible? What languages can I use?
Edit: I'm searching for a method to have an entry appear in the Unity Control Center, and to write a component or whatever that lives…
Tamás Barta
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Why am I not seeing all the system settings?
I just installed Ubuntu for the first time (switched from a Mint), and I'd like to set my preferences, which are, among other things, disabling cleartype altogether and moving some keys around (caps lock, shift and ctrl, just to name them, that's…
Gabriel
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unity-contol-center makes Xorg CPU usage at 100% on 16.04
This is the issue:
randomly my PC start to lag and top shows a 100% usage for Xorg.
Now, I know that it couldn' be Xorg itself the problem but a call from a client. So I killed everything, one by one, finding that it's unity-control-center's fault…
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Either system tray icons or unity-control-center icons disappear - how can I have both?
Note: I'm using Unity desktop on 18.04.
First, most of the icons in unity-control-center are missing after I installed then uninstalled mate-desktop and caja.
I tried reinstalling all of the installed unity* packages, still no result.
I resolved…
Aryo Adhi
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