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Recovering Your Gnome Desktop

I had touched, tweaked, moved, removed, installed, uninstalled lots of files, settings, etc.. since I installed my shiny Ubuntu Hardy.

As one could expect, my lovely operating system started to have performance problems, especially at loading time. Today I was unable to see my desktop without using the “Gnome fail-safe session” (Which is, by the way, too satisfying to be called fail-safe).

Anyway, I have decided to reinstall my operating system on bare metal, to have a new shiny desktop. As a last chance, I tried to look for a possible solution which does not involve re-installation or time consuming tweaks. I found many seem-to-be-too-complicated-and-unreliable suggestions, not things that one can do in the few free minutes he has.

At last, I found a very easy way to do this, and it amazingly worked: My desktop came to life again.

This is what one has to do:

1) Open a terminal.

2) In terminal type:

cd ~
\rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
 

That’s it, now restart your desktop session (probabely by hitting ctrl+alt+backspace), and all your gnome-settings are reset.

Credits:
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