Please, for the love of my sanity, give us an option to auto-exit Unity Hub after opening a project. Programs that want to run forever in my system tray drive me bonkers. The Hub is handy for managing multiple Unity installs, but once it has handed things over to Unity there’s no reason it should still be running. Please at least give us a box to check for exit-on-open.
Thanks!
First, Unity Hub v2.0.0-beta versions feedback thread page-2#post-4410925
Second, that completely undercuts the functionality of Hub if you need to do things like switch between projects or branches.
Third, you can just hide the icon. Windows has supported this feature since I’m pretty sure Windows 98.
I mean that’s why it’d be an option. Not everyone will be using hub to manage multiple instances, or they could just reopen hub in the off chance they do need multiple instances. I for example would have it auto close on my laptop (secondary device). Leave it on by default but I agree with having the option
Except it’s not really an issue. You can just close the hub, which is a nothing action.
This. Windows 10 automatically hides icons that are not regularly interacted with.
Speaking of secondary devices, Unity Hub is not using an insignificant amount of memory. I haven’t tried the beta release but the stable one is using 100 MB on my system. For a high end system that’s not a problem, but it could be for a system with 8 GB or less that needs to run multiple apps.
You have more than 8 GB. 
Again, though, you can just close it.
This is not really a problem Unity needs to solve when you can just right click close the hub.
4GB RAM here, pretty much everything else has to go if I want Unity and an IDE to even somewhat function
(Having said that, my main point was actually that I’d never have two instances of Unity running on this, so the proposed feature would be an added convenience)
Doesn’t have to be an issue to be area for QoL improvements
A QoL improvement would be adding the much requested “let me delete a project without having to muck around in the file system” feature. This is such a niche thing that it feels almost unfair to call it QoL.
Perhaps I should have explained further. The basis of my objection is that our computers belong to us, and we should get to decide what’s using them and how. Yes, the Hub isn’t eating a ton of resources, and yes I can just close it. My point is that I shouldn’t have to.
Someone else leaving their programs laying around my computer is just rude. It’s like the delivery guy brought me my package, but now he’s sitting in my kitchen nibbling my crackers. Telling me that it’s OK because he’s not eating much does not address my concern with his presence.
I understand the existence of the Hub, and I can even understand defaulting to leaving it running. But I do not understand being forced to ask this guy to get out of my kitchen every single time I start Unity.
You can choose to uninstall Unity if you don’t like it. It is your decision, you take it or leave it. Especially that it’s free for a very large group of people. So complaining about a right click/exit is just rude, childish and unfounded, in my opinion.
No. You explained it very well.
To be honest I completely agree that we should have control over our own computers, but we’re far beyond the point we can do that in the majority of cases. We definitely can’t do that with Windows or macOS. Choosing Linux can give us the illusion we’re in control but the reality is in the vast majority of cases we just have a slightly bigger list of choices.
For me Hub closes after I start a project. Havent done anything for it to behave like that. Maybe it hides to tray, havent bother to check
You also don’t need to use the Hub at all. Just launch Unity. I never have the Hub open on my work computer, I typically only work on two projects on it, and just have those two versions of unity on my dock.
If you close it, it logs you out and services like Collaborate no longer work though.
Then hide it.
Sure. Was just pointing out that if you want to close it, it’s not as simple as “just close it”.
(also, I was hoping I was doing it wrong and someone would jump in and tell me “no, you idiot, it doesn’t log you out if you x y z”)
It’s only an option pre-2019 though…
