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Re: [SLUG] Resetting Ubuntu Gnome to default


2008/10/5 Mary Gardiner <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> > Can anyone point me to the magic  button to just get back to the
> > default as it comes "out of the box"?
>
> It should be a question of System -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Theme
> tab and select "Human".


That's exactly what I tried but it didn't help.

As someone else reminded me off-list, I just moved aside the ~/.gnome2
directory and got most of the settings to default. It didn't even lose my
customized application icons, only a couple of default session startup
settings.

Cheers,

--Amos