We all know our beloved Ubuntu and its Desktop Enviroment Unity. It is a very user friendly and smooth looking Design that is fully functional on its own. But as it is with the Linux User People: is there a way to a) improve it or b) to make it look more nicy-nice.
Because i startet my Linux Journey on my old 2013 MacBook Air i wanted Ubuntu to look Apple-ish with a dock and very slick Design with nice Icons without trying to copy macOS. And without much stuff to do because im a lazy person.
So what is the plan? In general we install all the tools and themes and repositories and such and then configure parts of it to get it set quite nice.
1: sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
First of all we get the utility Unity Tweak Tool installed so we can change the theme and icons of unity and have some more control of the features.
(Maybe sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp is needed if repository isnt already added. if you need to add dont forget to update after you add the rep.)
Now we install the icons and the theme we wanna use, in this particular case it is the paper theme and icons.
3: sudo apt-get install docky
We install docky, so we can have a little dock that does look very nice in my opinion.
4: Configure the Launcher and get Paper’d
Start the Unity Tweak Tool -> Launcher Autohide: On | Reveal locatin: Left Side | Reveal Sensitivity: 0
After that go to Theme and choose Paper, same with Icons
And there you go. Now you can configure your dock even further and add widgets and such to your taste.
since i got this running i didnt get any errors or glitches.
only thing that is sorta "not perfect" if you press the super key and search for a programm the former launcher pops up for a splitsecond but thats it.
well, that would be something if you cant disable it / stop it from starting. but if thats what you end up with im talking about binding the super key away from it so that your super key only toggles what ever it is that your using over the default
i wouldnt mess with that because i would want to use the launcher on this keybinding but without the launcher sometimes plopping up.
btw: im playing around the amd driver and it seems like this "plopping up" isnt there anymore because of my driver config. or to be rational because of the higher hz i dont see that 1 frame plopp.
The performance is definitely there my 390 can actually run Shadow of Mordor on Ultra while FGLRX I couldn't get more than 25 fps. Same for Tomb Raider.