Where gnome stores its configuration???

macche · 2010-01-09 14:40:00

Hello,
i have this problem:

i have gnome and i have customized it with themes/icons and other autostart programs (like wicd, custom terminal, gnomedo, ecc.. adding them in the gnome session)
Now i want to clean all and restore gnome to factory defaults (just like a new installation).
To do this i have done: "rm -R .gnome* .gconf*" in my home dir, but when gnome starts it always autostart wicd and gnomedo.

How can i clean the whole gnome configuration?
Where gnome stores it???

Thank You!

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-09 14:46:00

Check ~/.config/autostart as well.

Peasantoid · 2010-01-09 14:47:11

Perhaps gconfd maintains your configuration in memory, so it gets recreated when you exit Gnome. Try killing gconfd before exiting.

(I don't know anything about Gnome, so take this with a heaping spoonful of salt.)

macche · 2010-01-09 17:45:13

now i've also deleted .config dir but same behaviour. Also if i create a new user!!!

how can i reset all this??

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-09 18:05:39

Deleting .config dir is a huge mistake. Not only gnome but many other apps [like google chrome] save their data their! Anyway, can you tell us what changes are re-appearing? Icons? Themes? or Autostart apps? If it's just themes and icons, you can just change them to whatever you want.

macche · 2010-01-09 18:16:51

gnome-do, wicd and also a gnome crash windows (bug buddy), so i want to clean all.

no problem for the .config dir.....i don't need to save other apps config.
I want to have gnome fully functioning back....

P.S. i have done all this also because with the latest update i have gnome without panel...see here the bug.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84305

Last edited by macche (2010-01-09 18:50:15)

Wintervenom · 2010-01-09 18:45:30

Some programs like Wicd have XDG shortcuts in "/usr/share/autostart" or something like this that will automatically launch, even on a new profile.

macche · 2010-01-09 19:15:29

i don't have the dir /usr/share/autostart.

it's strange because before the update all is working fine...:(

skottish · 2010-01-09 19:42:01

Look in ~/.local

macche · 2010-01-09 19:48:51

deleted also .local, same thing.....

i deleted all my ~/.* dirs, but nothing changes....

macche · 2010-01-09 19:49:46

must i change Desktop Environment???

or must i reinstall all the distro?

Ramses de Norre · 2010-01-09 20:40:26

macche wrote:

must i change Desktop Environment???
or must i reinstall all the distro?

If you are going the radical way, setting up a new user is the least radical but still (almost) certainly sufficient method I can think of. If even that does not help, I have no idea what is going on.

pyther · 2010-01-09 21:57:35

A few years ago I was having a similar problem and deleting the relevant items in /tmp resolved the issue for me. Who knows if this still the case now, I haven't used in gnome in a few years now. Might be worth a shot though.

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