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Old 10-09-2007, 08:25 AM   #1
rahuldevalone
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Thumbs down Help me to reset user profile sittings ?


My name is Rahul Kumar.one user change his display sitting in his user login ,Now he is not able to login now,when he try to login his linux desktop is showing black icons only ? Nothing is visiable at user login ? While root user is login sucessfuly at same linux pc & his desktop is working fine. Tell me how can i reset user profile without data lose? user is used to save data at his desktop & home folder ?
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Rahul Kumar
 
Old 10-09-2007, 01:19 PM   #2
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Which X environment are you using (KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc...)?

If you go into a terminal and navigate to the users home directory and type
ls -a (you will probably need to be root or the user to do this)
it will list all the file in it including hidden files (files which start with a . there should be a directory called .gnome (if you using gnome) / .kde (if your using kde) or something simeler for other x environments.

you can either go into this directory and change the config files yourself. or you could copy them from another user (you will probably need to be root for this

try the commands
Code:
rm /home/userwithbrokendisplay/.gnome   (this will delete the current setup)
cp -r /home/userwithworkingdisplay/.gnome /home/userwithbrokendisplay (this copys over the other users settings
the first line on its own might work and load up with default setting and automatically create file but i cant guarantee that.

its probly worth backing up the users .gnome file first so (frome users account run)
Code:
mv ~/.gnome ~/Desktop
this will save file onto the desktop where it will not be used by the WM to load setting
this will replace the first command
 
  


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