Messed up gnome settings

viko · 2020-07-12 10:01:51

So, i was searching for a new DE recently and came across budgie(currently using GNOME 3). So I installed it, though is wasn't good enough, so I deleted it. But apparently the budgie-desktop settings remained. So when I came back to my Gnome setup, saw that the buttons layout was changed. So what I did was go to gnome-tweaks and changed it so it only shows minimize and close. Everything okey, except that Firefox window button layout changed, but windows like the gnome-terminal and gnome-tweaks remain those of the budgie, which is super annoying. The behavior isn't consistent across the windows. Everything else seems to be configured properly(stuff like themes and icons), but just the button layout is different. Firefox, VSCode are like they should be, but gnome-settings, gnome-tweaks, gedit, nautilus and such still remain on the old one and they don't seem to change, no matter what. Any suggestions how can I fix this?

Proof image(and in case you didn't understand me):
https://ibb.co/VWjqWtj

Last edited by viko (2020-07-12 10:02:58)

ondoho · 2020-07-12 10:57:31

If you create a new user, or move all related config files out of the way, does it work as expected?

d_fajardo · 2020-07-12 11:15:14

It looks like you have traces of configuration files and they are usually dot files in your home directory.

sudo updatedb
locate budgie

Does these commands give any output?

viko · 2020-07-12 11:57:01

d_fajardo wrote:

It looks like you have traces of configuration files and they are usually dot files in your home directory.
sudo updatedb
locate budgie
Does these commands give any output?

Doesn't resolve it and they both give no output, nor changed something

Trilby · 2020-07-12 12:37:06

Yes, those commands would not help any. d_farjardo, even if there were files/directories with budgie in the name, they would not affect a gnome session. But the budgie configuration can, and almost certainly would change gtk3 configurations. See the themes and configuration sections below to adjust settings as you'd like:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK

viko · 2020-07-12 12:53:40

ondoho wrote:

If you create a new user, or move all related config files out of the way, does it work as expected?

So the new user does seem to not have this conflict. So does that mean it's the local user settings and config file that needs to be deleted? And if yes, which one/s?

Trilby · 2020-07-12 12:57:19

viko wrote:

does that mean it's the local user settings and config file that needs to be deleted? And if yes, which one/s?

For the first question - of course. This was a given even before you create a new user. For the second question, see the link I already provided above, or just look through ~/.config and clean up anything that shouldn't be there.

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viko · 2020-07-12 13:06:27

Trilby wrote:

viko wrote:
does that mean it's the local user settings and config file that needs to be deleted? And if yes, which one/s?
For the first question - of course. This was a given even before you create a new user. For the second question, see the link I already provided above, or just look through ~/.config and clean up anything that shouldn't be there.

Removing:
~/.gtkrc-2.0
~/.config/gtk-3.0/
~/.config/gtk-4.0/
Doesn't seem to do anything

Trilby · 2020-07-12 13:11:08

You'd want to reset or remove your dconf database as well as that's where a lot of gnome-centric settings are.

viko · 2020-07-12 13:37:08

Trilby wrote:

You'd want to reset or remove your dconf database as well as that's where a lot of gnome-centric settings are.

Deleting the ~/.config/dconf/user fixed the issue, although it removed every config I made. At least is fixed and doesn't bother me anymore. Thanks for the help!

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Messed up gnome settings

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