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/ 1 Year ago, mon, january 2, 2023, 10:51:47
I was playing around with some settings, and now I need to reset GNOME to it's defaults - how do I do that?
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For Unity-related configuration resetting, take a look here.
For Ubuntu 17.10 and higher, you can reset all the settings using dconf.
This command will delete your configuration files. Once it's run there is no going back!
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GNOME 2
Run the following on a terminal or with Alt+F2:
rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
That will remove all the GNOME 2 configuration settings. Log out, and log back in. You'll be back to a stock desktop.
You can backup before playing around with your settings in the future:
mkdir ./.old-gnome-config && mv ./.gnome* ./.old-gnome-config && mv .gconf* ./.old-gnome-config && mv ./.metacity ./.old-gnome-config
GNOME 3
If your config isn't worth saving run the following:
rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity .cache .dbus .dmrc .mission-control .thumbnails ~/.config/dconf/user ~.compiz*
To back up and reset GNOME3:
mkdir ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.gnome* ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv .gconf* ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.metacity ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.cache ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.dbus ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.dmrc ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.mission-control ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ./.thumbnails ./.old-gnome-config/ && mv ~/.config/dconf/* ./.old-gnome-config/
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