Remove Cinnamon settings

michalurban · 02-17-2014, 05:31 AM

Hi,

Ive run into a problem with Cinnamom (latest stable) running on Ubuntu 12.04.4 amd64.

I messed up some GUI settings (applets positioning) and I wanted to remove everything and reinstalll. So I logged out of cinnamon and used these commands(there may be little mistakes, Im writing this from my memory):

Code:

sudo apt-get purge cinnamon
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo updatedb
locate cinnamon | grep michal

Michal is my username. The last command has shown many "cinnamon" config files, mainly in ~/.cinnamon, ~/.config and ~/.local/share ... so I removed them all.

Then I installed cinnamon again only to find out that my settings is still here. That I found really weird.

Suggestions?

s.verma · 02-21-2014, 09:38 AM

1) Can you find the details what settings are still there?

I mean, are all the previous settings are restored or some specific settings like panel settings etc. remained after reinstallation?

2) Also have you modified configuration files by hand? Particularly in /etc.

3) Usually you do not need to reinstall a package to revert your settings. Simply removing config files in your HOME (~/) directory suffice.

4) Are you logged to a different user account?

5) Try searching google for all cinnamon settings files in your HOME dir, and delete all those files. Then restart cinnamon.

touch21st · 02-22-2014, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by s.verma

1) Can you find the details what settings are still there?

I mean, are all the previous settings are restored or some specific settings like panel settings etc. remained after reinstallation?

2) Also have you modified configuration files by hand? Particularly in /etc.

3) Usually you do not need to reinstall a package to revert your settings. Simply removing config files in your HOME (~/) directory suffice.

4) Are you logged to a different user account?

5) Try searching google for all cinnamon settings files in your HOME dir, and delete all those files. Then restart cinnamon.

I agree the 3rd. I was using cinnamon 1.4, but it's not very stable.

RockDoctor · 02-22-2014, 10:57 AM

When I've totally messed up a DE's configuration, I'll boot into text mode,move aside all of the old configuration info (see below), then start the display manager.

Code:

cd ~
mv .cinnamon dot_cinnamon
cd .config
mv .cinnamon-session dot_cinnamon-session

If that doesn't work, it's time to do something more drastic.

michalurban · 02-24-2014, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RockDoctor

When I've totally messed up a DE's configuration, I'll boot into text mode,move aside all of the old configuration info (see below), then start the display manager.

Code:

cd ~
mv .cinnamon dot_cinnamon
cd .config
mv .cinnamon-session dot_cinnamon-session

If that doesn't work, it's time to do something more drastic.

Thanks - but thats what I explained I did in the opening post. Folders like .cinnamon, share/.cinnamon, .config/.cinnamon ... or something like that. After purging and deleting for the Xth time I tried to find something in the GUI - as much I prefer the command-line way. There was some reset present, luckily.

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