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Re: gnome desktop messup



On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:22:22PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> If I mess up my gnome desktop, what do I do to get the default setting 
> back (icons, background, menus, all the works). I guess there are some 
> files to be deleted in ~/, maybe also in /tmp, so that the next time I 
> log in, I will be given a newly created default desktop(?)

For me,

  $ rm -rf ~/.gnome* ~/.gconf* /tmp/orbit-<username> /tmp/gconf-<username>

has always worked.


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