How to Restore Default Trisquel Menu Bar
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Hi there, thanks so much for the help thus far. Greatly appreciated.
I keep encountering an issue where I accidentally drag the Trisquel Menu Icon to another place on the menu bar and other similar issues. Would anyone know, how I can I cleanly restore the menu bar back to how it was after a fresh install of Trisquel 7?
Thanks.
/david
Alt+Right click on the element you want to (re)move. Or is it Windows+Alt+Right click?
You can use the dconf editor ('dconf-editor' at a command-line prompt) to modify org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout (and its sublevels) too.
And, of course, you can remove some hidden files in your home directory to go back to default settings... but which ones?
Yeah, I'd like to know that too. :/ I do know about adding and removing an item from the panel but a nice "reset to defaults" button would be so sweet!
Going to /etc/skel and making the file manager display hidden files and copying all the folders and files that were hidden (that start with . ) to your home folder (overwriting everything in your home folder) might help.
My /etc/skel has nothing in it. Is there no way to just restore the default panel?
Have you really displayed the hidden files? You can use Ctrl+H in the file manager. If you prefer the terminal:
$ ls -A /etc/skel
That said, I believe davidnotcoulthard's method will not work. The hidden files in /etc/skel do not specify the configuration of the panel. In other terms, it is the absence of a file that makes you have the default configuration. You can remove all the hidden files in your home folder (I would keep at least .bash_logout, .bashrc and .profile though) and *all* your applications (but the command line interpreter if you keep the three files I indicate) will be back to their default settings. You had better move them than remove them though. In this way, you can later restore some of your settings file after file (such as .mozilla, that you need not remove in the first place because it only contains the configuration of your Web browser).
EDIT: Since the panel (and much of GNOME) is configured through DConf (org.gnome.gnome-panel for the panel), I would actually try to only remove ~/.config/dconf (that is the directory named "dconf" inside .config, a hidden directory inside your home folder). Please report whether that was enough.
I wasn't aware I could type that in order to see hidden files. Thanks. I'll update once I get to try this.
I ended up not trying these methods. There is a widget that can be installed called an indicator. I just used that. Even has more functionality than the default version of that widget for some reason.
I wasn't aware I could type that in order to see hidden files. Thanks. I'll
update once I get to try this.
I ended up not trying these methods. There is a widget that can be installed
called an indicator. I just used that. Even has more functionality than the
default version of that widget for some reason.
My /etc/skel has nothing in it. Is there no way to just restore the default
panel?
Hi there, thanks so much for the help thus far. Greatly appreciated.
I keep encountering an issue where I accidentally drag the Trisquel Menu Icon
to another place on the menu bar and other similar issues. Would anyone know,
how I can I cleanly restore the menu bar back to how it was after a fresh
install of Trisquel 7?
Thanks.
/david
Going to /etc/skel and making the file manager display hidden files and
copying all the folders and files that were hidden (that start with . ) to
your home folder (overwriting everything in your home folder) might help.
Yeah, I'd like to know that too. :/ I do know about adding and removing an
item from the panel but a nice "reset to defaults" button would be so sweet!
Look for the hidden files - select View>Hidden Files.
@magicbanana I think it's in the dconf (or gconf) file(s), no? (Trisquel's panel is not in the default config whoever programmed it AFAIK so something would need to be in /etc/skel in order for Trisquel's custom setting to be used)
Although there are some configuration files in /etc/skel, they only deal with Bash, Screen and XChat. /etc/skel/.local only contains an empty directory: share. At least on my system (but I do not recall having modify /etc/skel).
Alt+Right click on the element you want to (re)move. Or is it
Windows+Alt+Right click?
Look for the hidden files - select View>Hidden Files.
@magicbanana I think it's in the dconf (or gconf) file(s), no? (Trisquel's
panel is not in the default config whoever programmed it AFAIK so something
would need to be in /etc/skel in order for Trisquel's custom setting to be
used)
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