reset now deprecated, man page not updated

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

[ Impact ]

The manpage for the "unity" command reflects the actual available options.

[ Test Case ]

Run "man unity". It should not say "--reset" is a valid command-line switch (option).

[ Regression Potential ]

This is a change to the man page. I suppose it might be a regression if the man page still does not match the option available in the 'unity' command. Not terribly serious.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrea (agasp68)]

Hello. I had the same problem and I fixed it using Ubuntu Tweak/Tweaks/Desktop/Desktop Icons. Unticked it (Show Desktop Icons), ticked it again and the icons appeared again

[Andrea (agasp68)]

Ignore my previous post. Icons are back but update manager does not work and it gives me this message

"Can't guess meta-package

Your system does not contain a ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop or edubuntu-desktop package and it was not possible to detect which version of Ubuntu you are running.
 Please install one of the packages above first using synaptic or apt-get before proceeding."

[Simplehuman (simplehuman)]

This bug is still actual for Utopic

[Alex Burdu (alex.burdu)]

Having this same problem on Ubuntu 14.04 running inside VirtualBox. Somehow the Unity bars are not shown. I tried compiz --replace and i get "compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'composite' not loaded."
Then I tried "$ sudo unity --reset
ERROR: the reset option is now deprecated"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.3.1+14.10.20140904-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.3.1+14.10.20140904-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Adjust upstart dependency to upstart-bin. (LP: #1351306)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * When Show Desktop is active, it will set the tooltip icon as
    "Restore Windows". This is per workspace. So each time show_destop
    bool is updated in PluginAdapter, the Show Desktop icon will update
    its tooltip if needed. (LP: #1237132)
  * Use CONFIG instead of CACHE to store the first_run.stamp

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * update the unity manpage (LP: #1059275)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Share lockscreen password entry between screens. (LP: #1308540)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * IconRenderer: draw count texture at proper scaling, built by
    LauncherIcon (LP: #1353070)
  * LauncherIcon: make the Icon count width depending on the text value
    width (LP: #796527)
  * Lockscreen: scale the UI elements based on current monitor scaling
    (LP: #1292218)
  * SwitcherView: set progress on icon render args (LP: #1361679)
  * SearchBar, ActionButtons, IconRenderer: include the font scaling
    when scaling textual items
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:12:54 +0000

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Attached debdiff between trusty-updates and SRU.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Alan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Share lockscreen password between screens (lp: #1308540)
  * Allow a distinct pam config file for greeter and for lock-screen.
    (lp: #1305440)
  * Add an arrow activator in the lockscreen. (lp: #1332509)
  * Make sure GetScreenGeometry returns the correct value (lp: #1374785).
  * unmapped all windows prior to shutdown (lp: #1370017) (lp: #1375271)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * fix tooltip for the "Show Desktop / Restore Windows" icon in the Alt-Tab
    switcher (lp: #1237132)
  * Use CONFIG instead of CACHE to store the first_run.stamp (lp: #1328677)

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * LayoutSystem: make sure the exposed open windows are displayed in the
    preserved order (lp: #1349281).

  [ handsome_feng ]
  * added support for getting the distro name from /etc/os-release
    (lp: #1329584)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * When grabbing keys, try prefixing "XF86" if the key isn't found. GNOME
    gives us unprefixed keys sometimes (lp: #1302885).

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * make the Launcher icon count badge width depend on the text value width
    and scaling (lp: #1353070) (lp: #1354498) (lp: #796527) (lp: #1066971)
    (lp: #1361713)
  * DecoratedWindow: make edges independent from borders and properly update
    them on actions change (lp: #1276177), (lp: #1299741), (lp: #1301776),
    (lp: #1324104), (lp: #1364225), (lp: #1373695)
  * Lockscreen: scale the UI elements based on current monitor scaling
    (lp: #1292218)
  * UnityScreen: when filtering out windows in spread, make sure we unscale
    them (lp: #1316265).
  * PanelMenuView: ensure that proper window tiles and buttons are shown at
    the right place (lp: #1384910) (lp: #1384958) (lp: #1385285)
  * SearchBar, ActionButtons, IconRenderer: include the font scaling when
    scaling textual items (lp: #1332947) (lp: #1361751) (lp: #1362162)
    (lp: #1362346).
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: make sure we close the dash if DnD is accepted
    and the application window is about to be focused (lp: #1350331).
  * SwitcherView: set progress on icon render args (lp: #1361679).
  * LockScreenController: wait for the primary shield to get the grab
    before setting the session locked (lp: #1368427) (lp: #1371764).
  * added decorations to windows in non-focused workspaces (lp: #1383468)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * updated the unity(1) manpage to match the actual command (lp: #1059275)
  * bumped package version to match upstream

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Preparing for unity 7.2.4
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:52:10 +0000

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.