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rp2615

Member

Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 1

Restore original desktop

I've been messing around with the settings and I seem to have made xfce unusable.
Is there any way to quickly restore the original default settings?

Thank you!

thewayofzen

Member

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 13

Re: Restore original desktop

I use xfce 4.4 rc1 on dapper 6.06..
I know when i have any issues this works for me.. i would assume it works for you as well if not im sure someone will correct me.
In your home folder you will find a directory/folder called .config
Inside that folder are various settings and configurations for xfce and other applications
If you want to start everything in its default configuration then remove all of .config 
If you wish to only only have the effect on xfce then u want to remove

/home/username/.config/autostart
/home/username/.config/Thunar
/home/username/.config/xfburn
/home/username/.config/xfce4
/home/username/.config/xfce4-session
/home/username/.config/xfmedia

That should allow everything involved with xfce in any way.. be it your session, desktop, filemanager, and a few other apps
to start in their original settings.