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AshleySueMas at 04:41, 24 February 2014

2014-02-24T04:41:13Z

AshleySueMas: /* Unity Interface Notes */

2013-11-06T00:44:53Z

Unity Interface Notes

Liliana at 18:28, 17 July 2013

2013-07-17T18:28:54Z

Scellef: Categorized

2013-02-02T00:16:06Z

Categorized

Mikem: /* Unity Interface Notes */

2012-06-26T07:07:30Z

Unity Interface Notes

Mikem at 06:54, 26 June 2012

2012-06-26T06:54:31Z

Mikem: /* G5 PowerMacs (Towers) */

2012-06-25T03:39:20Z

G5 PowerMacs (Towers)

Mikem at 03:33, 25 June 2012

2012-06-25T03:33:21Z

Mikem: /* Prettying Things Up */

2012-06-25T03:30:34Z

Prettying Things Up

Mikem: /* Settings on All PowerBooks */

2012-06-25T03:27:25Z

Settings on All PowerBooks

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	After that, things seem to work pretty zippy! I'm certain that this will also benefit other systems that may want to use Unity but would be otherwise sluggish.		After that, things seem to work pretty zippy! I'm certain that this will also benefit other systems that may want to use Unity but would be otherwise sluggish.

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	After that, things seem to work pretty zippy! I'm certain that this will also benefit other systems that may want to use Unity but would be otherwise sluggish.		After that, things seem to work pretty zippy! I'm certain that this will also benefit other systems that may want to use Unity but would be otherwise sluggish.
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 ==Unity Interface Notes==
-So I'm writing this section from a 1.0GHz PowerBook G4 and I've got Unity-2D working pretty well. The way that I accomplished it was by removing any compositor associated with Unity-2D through gconf-editor. The entries to toggle off are:
+So I'm writing this section from a 1.0GHz PowerBook G4 and I've got Unity-2D working pretty well. The way that I accomplished it was by removing any compositor associated with Unity-2D through gconf-editor. At the command line, type this::
-  /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
+  gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool false
 and
-  /apps/metacity/general/compositor_effects
+  gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositor_effects' --type bool false
-For good measure, I also disabled some of the background functions such as Software center advertisements and auto-file searching. Toggle these settings to off:
+For good measure, I also disabled some of the background functions such as Software center advertisements and auto-file searching. At the command line, enter these:
-  /desktop/unity/lenses/applications/display-available-apps
+  gsettings set desktop.unity.lenses.applications display-available-apps false
-  /desktop/unity/lenses/applications/display-recent-apps
+  gsettings set desktop.unity.lenses.applications display-recent-apps false
-  /desktop/unity/lenses/files/use-locate
+  gsettings set desktop.unity.lenses.files use-locate false
 After that, things seem to work pretty zippy! I'm certain that this will also benefit other systems that may want to use Unity but would be otherwise sluggish.

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 Initial setups done on these towers incorporated ATI cards but if you do run into a setup with or a situation where you need an Nvidia card, know that the virtual desktop issue will be affecting those cards as well and as such, you should follow the steps to move to the NV driver.
-==iMac G5s==
+==iLamp G4s and iMac G5s==
-Haven't tried these yet but I'm sure we'll be troubleshooting these much the same way we do with the PowerBooks given the nature of the hardware.
+Haven't tried these yet but I'm sure we'll be troubleshooting these much the same way we do with the PowerBooks given the nature of the hardware. I'm thinking the minimum spec for these should remain ~1.0GHz.

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−	This is now a real thing.	+	This is now a real thing. In fact, this whole page was typed up from a PowerBook G4 12" in Lubuntu 12.04. -Mike M. (Mike-Umz)

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		+	If anyone knows how to change the default background at the login screen, please post that here. I think my blue background is the way to go.

	== G5 PowerMacs (Towers)==		== G5 PowerMacs (Towers)==

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	Next, I tend to change the keyboard layout to 'USA (Macintosh)' so the hotkeys will work.		Next, I tend to change the keyboard layout to 'USA (Macintosh)' so the hotkeys will work.
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		+	I also set screensaver from the default 10 minutes to 5 minutes and doublecheck power settings.

	===Audio Settings===		===Audio Settings===