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help restore gnome ubuntu 12.04

10 years ago

Hi all,
Well, I did a stupid thing and messed up my computer. I have a dual boot set up,
thankfully,with ubuntu 10.04,so I am able to use it. What I did was issue commands for unity while forgetting I'm using the gnome classic panel.
I have confused my pc at this point. Can I just reset gnome and be okay?
This is the command I used;
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz -1
unity --reset &

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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
I'm no expert, just muddle through, occasionally having to fix one of my own mess-ups, so take this with a grain of salt. Strictly what I'd likely do...

(1) From 10.04 I'd manipulate to the user home directory(/home/username) on the mounted 12.04 partition.
(2) Rename the hidden .gconf directory gconf (so I have a "just in case" backup)
(3) Boot into 12.04 and hope a clean usable .gconf directory gets created.

If that didn't work, possibly look at this next: http://askubuntu.com/questions/56313/how-do-i-reset-gnome-to-the-defaults

And if that didn't work I'd perhaps try booting 12.04 and adding a new user. Should get fresh config files... should.

This post was edited by chuggerguy on Fri, May 24, 13 at 14:01
kaijutokusatsu
Original Author
10 years ago
I booted back into 12.04 to copy some folders in case I needed to re-install or I really messed it up.....and guess what? It's back to normal gnome!
I can't explain it but its good for now. Thanks chuggerguy for your suggestions!
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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
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Maybe it just needed that reboot?

Anyway, glad you're back up.
spunbondwarrior
10 years ago
Hey Chuggerguy
A bit of absolutely unrelated to anything here history of or about Vero Beach. Sort of.

Back in the late 1960's, when it was a weekend night when the moon was anywhere close to being full, several of us would get in a line and travel north on the Turnpike to Yeehaw Junction and head west down St. Rd. 60.
At high speed. Down the middle of the road. With no lights on. All the way to where the Kissimmee River leaves the lake. Then we would turn around and go back.
This was back when the interior, and most of everywhere else in the state too, including, maybe especially so, the very far southeast corner of the state, was virtually empty. The speed limit outside of any corporate limit was designated by a "Resume Safe Speed" sign. Which was, whatever you could sweet talk the FHP into letting you get away with.
This is back before Alligator Alley opened. Back when "Hi-test" was less than $.30 a gallon. Back when we would get bored with running Tamiami Trail from the old no longer there Tamiami Airport over to Naples and back, and so go all the way up north to where they actually have frost some years!

Personally, I like "Unity". But, I am a big fan of (most of) KDE 4 too. This is OpenSUSE, which I find quite nice. I have no real religious affiliation to any environment. I like E17 and XFCE and, I reckon I like them all, I had Bodhi installed for a brief time...well, I reckon everything has some pluses and minuses. Since I am only here for a bit I am going to do a Mint15 RC installation and then I am gone....

Oh yeah. I reboot anytime I install or change anything. "Always" have. More habit than anything else. Once upon a time it was damn near mandatory when doing damn near anything.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
That's about the time my fresh driver's license gave me the freedom to get out, mostly just to get out of the house, and drive the back roads of South Central Ohio. I think gas was 30 something cents where I was getting it. The cheapest I can remember is 25.9ÃÂ¢ during a gas war. 1973? 1974?

I suppose I should learn to like Unity. But I'm comfortable with Classic Gnome. I like the panels, being able to drop shortcuts onto them, etc. Know where everything is too.

On a fresh install, one of the first things I do is put those dang min,max,close buttons back on the right where they belong where I'm used to. I would prefer file size be expressed in base 2 again. I would really prefer file size be expressed in base 2 again. I would really really prefer file size be expressed in base 2 again. I would really really really prefer file size be expressed in base 2 again.

I haven't used Linux long, although it feels like it, Fedora 6 perhaps. Next I think it was CentOS, then Debian, and finally Ubuntu. For now that is.

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