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My GUI has changed into some crappy looking theme, I don't know why it happened and I want to get the default looks back!



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It happened after I was mucking around trying to get the purple grub menu splash to go away, so that I could see dmesg during boot, and I followed the instructions in this accepted answer to do sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-* and reboot. Unfortunately, now I've got an ugly Gnome and ironically the bootloader splash screen remained anyway.



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Of course I first tried sudo apt-get install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text, which were the two that got removed by the previous step, but even after reboot it was still the ugly gnome.



Next I tried gnome-tweak-tool but it was all set to ambiance theme which should be correct. And then I tried lxappearance app which looked promising but didn't fix the problem either.



How can I get my old window and icons looks back?




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After trying 101 things, the solution that finally worked for me was taking a backup of ~/.config/dconf/ and then removing it. This was regenerated again after the next reboot, with the default window and icons themes coming back.



Note: I also lost a few minor customisations I'd made, and had to redo them again manually.


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