Ubuntu 16.04 – Will It Run Unity 8 on Desktop?

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Will Ubuntu 16.04 run Unity 8 by default?

Softpedia mentions that it'll probably be for 16.10…

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No, it will not be using Unity 8, the default will remain Unity 7 & Compiz

This video indicates that the Unity 8 team is targetting 16.10:

https://youtu.be/Clf4Dvy-x4w?t=42m10s

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Ubuntu – Black screen (without cursor) displays after login to Unity 8 on Ubuntu 16.04

I had a similar issue when logging into Ubuntu GNOME, my issues was resolved by:

When you reach the black screen upon login, you could try pressing 'Ctrl + Alt + F1' and blindly type your username, press enter and then type your password. Press enter after this and a CLI environment should be displayed similar to a normal terminal.

From here, enter the command: startx which should start the unity 8 desktop environment.

Ubuntu – How to run Unity 8 on Ubuntu inside of VirtualBox

You can't run neither mir nor wayland on virtualbox. Maybe in the future... See also the links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/3v2tof/unity_8_in_virtualbox/, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mir/+bug/1366805, https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1118903.

EDIT(2017-13-01): You can run wayland inside virtualbox now. I have successfully launched a plasma wayland session on KDE Neon Developer Edition Git Unstable with virtualbox 5.1.12. I'm not sure about Mir. I will have to test some ubuntu 17.04 Alpha release to find out.

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