Comments on: Designing Unity: The Start Menu http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/09/29/designing-unity-the-start-menu/ Virtualization, Open Source, and Life Mon, 10 May 2010 11:14:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ryan Faussett http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/09/29/designing-unity-the-start-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-42222 Ryan Faussett Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:00:15 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=268#comment-42222 sorry post ate my key binding sequence: Is there a way to change the Shift+Control+v shortcut/hotkey for causing unity to bring up your windows start menu? Its the default keybinding for RedHat gnome-terminal paste sorry post ate my key binding sequence:
Is there a way to change the Shift+Control+v shortcut/hotkey for causing unity to bring up your windows start menu? Its the default keybinding for RedHat gnome-terminal paste

]]> By: Ryan Faussett http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/09/29/designing-unity-the-start-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-42221 Ryan Faussett Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:59:03 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=268#comment-42221 Is there a way to change the v shortcut/hotkey for causing unity to bring up your windows start menu? Its the default keybinding for RedHat gnome-terminal paste Is there a way to change the v shortcut/hotkey for causing unity to bring up your windows start menu? Its the default keybinding for RedHat gnome-terminal paste

]]> By: London http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/09/29/designing-unity-the-start-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-42201 London Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=268#comment-42201 Hi! I heard from a friend that VMWare Player supports Unity mode. I'm really hoping this feature made available in VMWare Server 2.0. I wonder if i can install both server and player on my Ubuntu box... ;-) Hi! I heard from a friend that VMWare Player supports Unity mode. I’m really hoping this feature made available in VMWare Server 2.0. I wonder if i can install both server and player on my Ubuntu box… ;-)

]]> By: John http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2008/09/29/designing-unity-the-start-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-42188 John Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:23:32 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=268#comment-42188 Really interesting post! I've been using Unity mode in anger for the last week or so, running windows XP and 2000 guests on Vista x64. I'm pretty impressed with how well it works on the whole, so well done! I think this is a much nicer solution than VirualBox, which basically just makes your guest desktop transparent, especially for running multiple guests at once One thing I'd really like to see in the future is a way to limit which windows appear on your host via Unity. Sometimes I want to run things in my guest that I don't want cluttering up my host task-bar. Also, it would be great if, in the task bar, it was easy to distinguish between what is a guest window and what is a host window (saves confusion when I run say FireFox both in my guest and in my host!) Also, though I'm sure there are more formal channels to submit bug reports, but a few of the things I've noticed are: - The window icons for Windows 2000 guests come through garbled - Sometimes when I alt-tab between windows and then try to type into the newly in-focus window, my text still appears in the old window - I have to click on the new window to force focus. - Sometimes copy/paste between different windows in different VMs doesn't work. - If I have 2 maximised windows in my guest, my Vista task-bar preview for both windows will always show an image of the most recently in-focus window (I guess this is because behind the scenes both windows are sharing the same guest desktop) I'm sure future updates will continue to work the glitches out! Really interesting post! I’ve been using Unity mode in anger for the last week or so, running windows XP and 2000 guests on Vista x64. I’m pretty impressed with how well it works on the whole, so well done! I think this is a much nicer solution than VirualBox, which basically just makes your guest desktop transparent, especially for running multiple guests at once

One thing I’d really like to see in the future is a way to limit which windows appear on your host via Unity. Sometimes I want to run things in my guest that I don’t want cluttering up my host task-bar. Also, it would be great if, in the task bar, it was easy to distinguish between what is a guest window and what is a host window (saves confusion when I run say FireFox both in my guest and in my host!)

Also, though I’m sure there are more formal channels to submit bug reports, but a few of the things I’ve noticed are:
– The window icons for Windows 2000 guests come through garbled
– Sometimes when I alt-tab between windows and then try to type into the newly in-focus window, my text still appears in the old window – I have to click on the new window to force focus.
– Sometimes copy/paste between different windows in different VMs doesn’t work.
– If I have 2 maximised windows in my guest, my Vista task-bar preview for both windows will always show an image of the most recently in-focus window (I guess this is because behind the scenes both windows are sharing the same guest desktop)

I’m sure future updates will continue to work the glitches out!

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