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[Hannie Dumoleyn]

Hello Stephen, Doug,
Finally I managed to get System Settings work in Xenial. After reading 
all your information, I decided to remove Unity8 and then only did this:
sudo apt-get install unity8-desktop-session-mir
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/stable-phone-overlay
As for the web browser "Browser", which I installed in Unity7, I can 
open it in Unity 8, use Google Search and get a list of results. As soon 
as I click on a site, however, Unity8 crashes and I can only do a 
restart by pushing the button on my desktop machine (cold start). I will 
add some information from the crash report in the LP bug [1], see below. 
I have also used Apport to send the crash report to Ubuntu, but I do not 
know where it lands.
Hannie


Op 06-07-16 om 12:43 schreef Hannie Dumoleyn:
> I added  the Stable Phone Overlay PPA to my resources, but to no 
> avail. System Settings and Browser still do not work in Xenial 16.04.1 
> Unity 8. I could not find 
> ~/.cache/upstart/application-legacy-ubuntu-system-settings-.log on my 
> desktop. I have attached 2 log files to my bug report [1] instead.
> @ Doug: I will try to install 16.10 soon. See if that helps.
> Hannie
> [1] 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session/+bug/1595238
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> Op 03-07-16 om 14:19 schreef Stephen M. Webb:
>> On 16-07-03 12:20 AM, Doug Smythies wrote:
>>> It didn't work on my 16.04 LapTop either.
>>> Then I looked around at some references, and got the impression that no
>>> it doesn't work on 16.04 desktops.
>>>
>>> So I installed the daily iso for 16.10, and then it sort of works.
>> It should work on 16.04 LTS.  It was extensively tested there. In 
>> fact, it's been available in the archives and working
>> (see below) since at least 14.04.  We had the entire Unity 8 
>> development team dogfood Unity 8 on 16.04 for at least a
>> day a couple of weeks ago, as a test.
>>
>> There are two caveats, of course:
>>
>> (1) The proprietary binary-blob video drivers from nVidia and AMD 
>> still do not yet support Mir, so you need to use free
>> software drivers. Not all the video drivers in VMs support Mir 
>> either, so it may not work in all VMs.
>>
>> (2) You need to have the Stable Phone Overlay PPA in your sources to 
>> get the latest bugfixes and changes if you want to
>> see a preview of what should appear in 16.10 (it matches exactly the 
>> versions on the phone and in the archives for
>> 16.10, but built for 16.04).  It should still work without that PPA, 
>> but be missing a whole lot of functionality that's
>> scheduled to appear in 16.10.
>>
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