Resetting Gnome Desktop

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Florido" <matt at floridonet.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 3:09 PM
Subject: Resetting Gnome Desktop


> It seems something was altered on my desktop profile when I set up VNC. 
> Now, when I open any application, it attaches itself to the task bar 
> instead of opening a separate instance.
>
> Also, my desktop theme doesn't appear.  Is there a way to reset these 
> settings to default?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Matt Florido
> (Newly acquainted to FC3)

The "chainsaw" method is to boot the machine to runlevel 3 (i.e. np GNOME 
stuff running), and in your home directory run the commands:

mkdir backup
mv .g* backup

This will move all your GNOME settings (essentially deleting them) and they 
will be reset to defaults next time you start X.

Thomas