Trisquel and unity

My first gut reaction was, "Why would anybody want to install Unity?" But I realize that in a sense I'm trolling and to each his own preferences... De gustibus non est disputandum...

Since I don't use Unity, I can't offer specific help, but let me make a suggestion that hopefully will prove helpful. Try installing Trisquel with a GUI first, then follow the directions for installing Unity. This approach serves two purposes. First, you make sure X is working (troubleshooting an incompletely installed or incorrectly configured X can be a real pain). Second, package dependencies don't always make sense. Earlier this morning I completely removed X from my laptop (xorg-xserver*, etc. -- because, as I said before, troubleshooting is a pain, and reinstalling all that stuff turned out to be easier). I noticed that removing X took out a bunch of stuff that depended on it, as expected, but didn't take out everything that should depend on it. In particular, GHex, Code::Blocks, Calibre, gschem, and other GUI apps were still installed. These should depend on X (or depend on things that depend on X), shouldn't they? If there are missing links in the dependency chains, then you might not be pulling in everything actually needed to run Unity.

tl;dr -- My suggestion is try installing a full regular Trisquel with the standard GUI, then adding Unity after everything else is working...

I installed unity just installing the regular unity packages, without following those instructions in the link. Although I did that after installing standard Trisquel, as suggested above.

@jstoddard, Unity, in spite of having millions of enemies, is quite convenient for small screens for having those menus in the window titles! (And that's the only reason I find to install Unity, so I won't follow up any discussion about this, hehe)