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Desktop Environments is what they meant (GNOME, Unity, other variants). If your desktop look like similarly to the image you posted, the soft black vertical ba
by Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
Desktop Environments is what they meant (GNOME, Unity, other variants).
If your desktop look like similarly to the image you posted, the soft black vertical bar on the far left side of the screen is the taskbar. I think you are using Unity as your DE which is default DE for Ubuntu.
You can change to different DE if Unity is not your liking. There is a couple variants you can use, you can find them in the package manager and install it from there.
- TekMol 5y agoI thought the vertical left bar is a "dock". It does not display the titles of the open windows and does not let me arrange the entries. That are the two problems I described. It feels like this is meant to be used on a mobile device rather than on a desktop. On a desktop it makes me way less productive compared to a normal taskbar.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoIt is the same thing, all OS taskbar does not always behave similarly. That is Unity DE unfortunately, they are trying to "Fisher-Price" everything in there. If you want a better taskbar/dock, try different DE and see how you like it.
- ArclightMat 5y agoThat's not Unity, that's GNOME with extensions mimicking Unity. Also instead of changing desktop environments, he could install the clean/stock GNOME session and then add Dash to Panel + Arc Menu, which would give it a Windows-like taskbar.
- SahAssar 5y agoUnity is no longer the default DE, Ubuntu uses Gnome3. Unity has not been the default since before 18.04.