On desktop, windowed mode should be the default

[Michael Zanetti]

Right now desktops start up in Side Stage mode but it should be windowed mode.

Currently it is required to set com.canonical.unity8.usage-mode to Windowed in order to enable windowed mode.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

An .override file shipped by the desktop session could be a first step.

Ultimately we want info about the system peripherals to base our decision upon.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The override can be shipped in ubuntu-settings, that package is installed on desktop installations only. Once we get per sessions default (needs glib work which is ongoing) we can do better

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I'm adding the override to ubuntu-settings, needs https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/unity8/desktop-stage/+merge/242140 to land to be doing something though

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-settings - 15.04.0

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ubuntu-settings (15.04.0) vivid; urgency=medium

  * debian/ubuntu-settings.override: set unity8 usage mode to Windowed
    (lp: #1400312)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:22:44 +0100

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

so should this bug be closed now ?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

No, this is fixed in a temporary way, but the bug remains with unity8 and qtdeclarative, because we need to be able to auto-detect instead of relying on ubuntu-settings.