I installed ubunut 10.4 and its great... however i make the mistake of using emerald theme manger and it has removed my close and minimise buttons from all programs...
I have looked at countless forums for and answer to get the back and noting has worked...And im fed up and just want a fresh start, because ubunut is awesome as im sure you all know!
I only have ubuntu on my laptop and i need to know how to reinstall it?
Just nuke your .gnome directory. Reinstalling is a solution for Windows problems. You have Ubuntu.
[QUOTE=ph:lxyz;22637205]Just nuke your .gnome directory. Reinstalling is a solution for Windows problems. You have Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for your post... however i have no idea what you mean??
Go into /home/kriz or whatever your home directory is
(open a terminal and type cd)
then just do:
[code]
rm -rf .gnome
[/code]
hit ctrl + alt + backspace to restart X
sorry that did nothing...
What should i have expected?
It cleans out your gnome configuration. There may be other directories there also beginning with a "." which can safely be removed. There may be one for beryl/emerald/etc (don't delete /etc !) ;-)
AH i see... Cool
should a restart show the changes then?
Logout and login should work too.
[QUOTE=ph:lxyz;22637351]Go into /home/kriz or whatever your home directory is
(open a terminal and type cd)
then just do:
[code]
rm -rf .gnome
[/code]
hit ctrl + alt + backspace to restart X[/QUOTE]
I see a lot of people doing -rf to delete a directory instead of just -r. the -f is only necessary if rm is aliased to rm -i. Just something worth noting.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22652167]I see a lot of people doing -rf to delete a directory instead of just -r. the -f is only necessary if rm is aliased to rm -i. Just something worth noting.[/QUOTE]
The -f forces removal. Might have its uses in any case.
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