XFCE configs location

Sawrub luckysharma11 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 18:11:12 UTC 2010


On 02/21/2010 11:24 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:47:24 +0530
> Sawrub<luckysharma11 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I installed xfce desktop long back and uninstalled it. Yesterday when
>> i retried after doing a new "yum groupinstall XFCE" all the settings
>> that i had in my previous installations were picked back. I guess the
>> configs were not removed from the system at that time, finding the
>> same i uninstalled the environemnt and now when i query the hidden
>> files under my home directory for xfce there is no results. I guess
>> that they are some where else.
>>
>> Please guide how can i make a fresh new install of xfce.
>>      
> Xfce stores it's config in ~/.config/xfce4/ for the most part. Some of
> it's apps store config in ~/.config/<appname>/
>
> So, you should be able to move aside the ~/config dir and get a fresh
> setup.
>
> kevin
>    
Thanks to all who responded, i'm there and will be playing around.

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