Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

[Joe]

I managed to find the obscure link I used to removed gnome-panel in the
first place (and subsequently restored it). Basically, I opened
gconf-editor, went to /apps/gnome/session/required_components and
removed the entry for "panel". All I had to do was add "gnome-panel"
back in, remove AVN and Stalonetray from my session and log out. Once
the panel was running, I tweaked to my preferences and I'm back in business!

Had I used your method, I assume it would have been something like...

$ gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/gnome/session/required_components

But, I just fixed it by hand. I also didn't try just removing .gnome
since it didn't seem like there was anything in there anyway.

Thanks for the input though everyone. Now to contemplate the move to
9.04 (finally!).

-Joe

Ted Gould wrote:
> 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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