[sjwilliams1881]

I am very new to Linux and i am loving it..unfortunately i got a little trigger happy adjusting my settings. i was just wondering of there were a way to restore the default desktop environment

Thank you in advance. 

[altman]

Hey , can you post a pic of what s that you got ! It might help on fixing your issues mate .

[sjwilliams1881]

It's quite embarrassing actually i was scaling the launch bar size and i went a little to far and it ended up taking up my whole screen i'm running it on a Acer netbook  it was a fairly fresh install so i ended up re-installing but i would like to know for future reference if it is at all possible to restore the default environment.   

[altman]

lol , I did it once , no worries .

I ve been reinstalling for 7-8 years ! lol

Is that the whole bar ( or the Panel that went off ) that dissapeared ! or some stuff in the bar itself .

[Scott(0)]

Hi Sjwilliams1881

but i would like to know for future reference if it is at all possible to restore the default environment.

I'm not aware of a simple method that will just reset everything to defaults but...

you can create a new user account and when you login to that new account the environment should be pretty much reset. You will need to setup the new account, it won't remember previous customizations.

One approach I take is I don't use the account created during installation. Instead, I create a new account and use that as my daily login so if anything goes wrong I always have a fresh account to go back to and fix things.

Does that make sense?

Scott

[anon222]

Theoretically it's possible. If you are willing to test this in a VM Scott(0) this is what I have in mind:
First I would back up ~/.config/xfce4 and ~/.config/xfce4-session just in case

Code:

cp -r ~/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4.old
cp -r ~/.config/xfce4-session ~/.config/xfce4-session.old

And if something goes wrong you can restore the folders.

then kill the panel and xfconfd and copy xfce4 xfce4-session from /etc/skel/.config
/etc/skel there are the files that are used when a new user is created. skel like a skeleton for the new user.
Here is one-liner

Code:

xfce4-panel --quit ; pkill xfconfd ; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4-session ; cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4; cp -Rf /etc/skel/.config/xfce4-session ~/.config/xfce4-session ; sudo reboot

After reboot it should work. In theory. :)
I'm not sure will indicator plugins be as they were on first boot.
Cheers

[Scott(0)]

Hello to all,

Misko contacted me regarding his previous (reply #5) to let me know his tests were successful. Running the commands listed above should have the result of "resetting" your desktop to the defaults of a fresh install.

Thanks again, Misko!

Scott

[banko]

Just wanting to say a big thanks to misko :)
I had accidentally removed some things from the panel, including the wi-fi connection button,
On fitting a new broadband router, I was unable to connect, so I connected with an Ethernet cable, and searched the forums and came up with this post and it works (as does the search function).

So again a big thanks.

Keith

[Wirezfree]

I'm sure there have been a few requests on here of a similar nature.?

Could this be a feature for 3.0..??
A terminal command for a reset script, like

Code:

re-set-desktop

Just a thought

[lydiadx]

Many, many thanks, Misko!