Resetting Gnome Desktop
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Feb 7 00:19:24 UTC 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Florido" <matt at floridonet.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 3:09 PM
Subject: Resetting Gnome Desktop
> It seems something was altered on my desktop profile when I set up VNC.
> Now, when I open any application, it attaches itself to the task bar
> instead of opening a separate instance.
>
> Also, my desktop theme doesn't appear. Is there a way to reset these
> settings to default?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Matt Florido
> (Newly acquainted to FC3)
The "chainsaw" method is to boot the machine to runlevel 3 (i.e. np GNOME
stuff running), and in your home directory run the commands:
mkdir backup
mv .g* backup
This will move all your GNOME settings (essentially deleting them) and they
will be reset to defaults next time you start X.
Thomas
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