Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

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Author: Ted Gould
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome
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


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