Tips and Tricks for Unity

Solution 1:

Getting Started

  • Homepage
  • Hardware Requirements
  • What's New (Official)
  • Online Tour (Official)

  • Rick Spencer’s Getting Started(This is a great beginner guide, start here)

  • OMG!Ubuntu's Guide to Unity
  • Rick Spencer’s Video Guide
  • Jorge’s Video Guide to the Dash
  • Jorge’s Video Guide to Multitasking

Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

  • What’s the right terminology for Unity’s UI elements?
  • How can I configure Unity?
  • Unity Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Does Unity support disabling the global application menu?
  • How do I reset my Unity configuration?
  • How do I turn on Unity drag handles?

Launcher and Quick Lists

  • What are the custom launchers created for Unity?
  • How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity
  • How do I make a custom launcher for terminal applications?
  • How to add my favorite places as a quicklist in my home’s icon in Unity?
  • How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?
  • How do I add a static quicklist that opens a web page?
  • How do I put a web application on the Launcher?
  • Launcher icon to share files with Dropbox - drag and drop
  • Drag and drop imageshack uploader
  • Show desktop icon for the launcher

Indicators and notification area

  • How do I access the system tray?
  • What happened to the weather-app in the panel?
  • List of application indicators

Lenses

  • What exactly is a “lens”?
  • What Lenses are available?
  • 5 neat Unity lenses in development
  • Unity Lens Documentation
  • How do I install the Reddit Unity Lens?
  • How do I install the Ask Ubuntu Unity Lens, and how do I use it?
  • How do I install the Books Lens, and how do I use it?

Task Switcher

  • How to show windows only from the current workspace in switcher?
  • Video on how to use the task switcher.

Developers

For application developers

  • Launcher API
  • All API Documentation
  • What is nux and what’s it used for?

Contributing to Unity

  • Get Involved
  • How do I build Unity from source?
  • Unity Architecture
  • Bitesize Bugs (getting started bits of code)
  • Coding Style
  • Unity’s development visualized
  • I’m a Unity developer ask me anything
  • We're the Unity Development team, as us anything.