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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy friends

It's time for our weekly rundown of what's happening on your Unity desktop if you're behind the wheel of a Trusty Tahr
system.


Unity 7 on the Desktop
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A new lockscreen has landed.  Instead of the dull old gray WIN95-style unlock dialog, you;re now presented with
something that looks like the login screen (the Unity Greeter from LightDM).  There have been a few issues with this new
lock screen , and they're getting addressed by the developers.

The default Unity themes are now borderless.  This gives a lighter, sleeker appearance to the desktop.

Work is continuing on high-DPI support tweaks, including a matching of GTK scaling options to the Unity scaling options.


Unity 8 on the Desktop
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Good news!  The Fix for the Mir-crashing-on-login bug has landed in the archives and that's no longer a problem and the
formerly-required PPA is no longer necessary.

Bad news.  The new Qt 5.2 that recently landed causes applications to fail to draw if they use graphical acceleration on
the desktop under certain circumstances.  Those circumstances include remote connections and running on a nested Mir
server.  The unfortunate result is that after updating today, logging in to the Unity 8 desktop just results in a black
screen.  Similarly, trying to run any of the Touch apps remotely gives empty windows.  It seems there's a problem
detecting the appropriate shader model to use under these circumstances.

We're investigating what's causing this and looking for a fix.  Running the Unity 8 desktop preview session from the
Ubuntu archives is sooo close now.


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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>