On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:57 -0700, Joe wrote: > Is there a way to quickly change all my setting back to defaults? I > realize I could make a new user or possibly blow away my home dir and > start totally fresh, but I rather do neither (unless those are the only > options, of course). I would work backwards and restore the panel and > such, but I can't seem to find the directions I originally followed. It won't reset everything but I believe (but I'm unwilling to test :) that this will work: $ gconftool --recursive-unset / Thought it will get any application that uses GConf's settings as well. You can be more specific by choosing something other that "/" -- which might be a good idea. --Ted