Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Joe
Hey all, So, a while back, I made a ton of changes to my main user account. I removed the gnome-panel completely and replaced it with Avant Window Navigator and Stalonetray. They have served me pretty well for a while, but I think I want to go back to the default Gnome settings. Default session, d

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Stephen
You can remove the .gnome directory Wich should reset gnome only On 8/5/09, Joe wrote: > Hey all, > > So, a while back, I made a ton of changes to my main user account. I > removed the gnome-panel completely and replaced it with Avant Window > Navigator and Stalonetray. They have served me prett

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Ted Gould
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 b

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread 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 Stal

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
Contemplate long and hard upgrading, I've had a host of quirky issues since updating ibex to jaunty that have been annoying me. These include screen saver not working (and subsequent locking), random x crashes when I scroll wheel in firefox (wtf?), and still the same old memory leaks that I've see

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Shubert
FWIW, I'm patiently sticking with the LTS track (Heron at this point). The only problem I'm having with it (that I know of) is getting the update to Pidgin for yahoo backported. Michael Butash wrote: > Contemplate long and hard upgrading, I've had a host of quirky issues > since updating ibex to

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
I'm too impatient to stick with hardy, invariably I need fixes/features in the new ones no one feels like backporting. There is/was a workaround for it by using a different yahoo login host, scsa.msg.yahoo.com that worked for me before getting the pidgin fix. Have you tried the ppa for pidgin-de

Re: Restoring defaults in Ubuntu Gnome

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Shubert
Thanks Michael. It was in that repo, so now I'm back on yahoo, and happily plugging along with Heron. :) Michael Butash wrote: > I'm too impatient to stick with hardy, invariably I need fixes/features > in the new ones no one feels like backporting. > > There is/was a workaround for it by using