[ubuntu-uk] Life without unity

[Liam Proven]

On 6 April 2013 23:14, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried typing unity --replace into the terminal and it shows a list of
> loaded plugins then seg faults.

I had a *lot* of Compiz/Unity crashes on 12.10, so I've been running
the 13.04 alpha and then beta version for a month or so and it seems
to be significantly more stable.

FWIW, I found that to use `unity --replace` I had to switch to a
virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 thru' F6) and log in and run it from
there.

In a terminal, I found that just using

compiz &

... worked better. Unity is a Compiz plugin, so whichever caused the
crash, restarting Compiz also restarts Unity.


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