Reset Compiz effects back to Ubuntu Defaults…
The other day I installed compizconfig-settings-manager and started playing around with some of the advanced settings in compiz, and everything was working OK, I’d just had enough of all the “Extras” and I wanted to go back to Ubuntu’s “Normal” effects as selectable in Appearance Preferences, but apparently, even by doing that some of the extras settings I’d set up in the advanced settings manager wouldn’t go away. I did a quick bit of “googling” and I came by this command that will reset Compiz to the defaults:
Simply hit Alt+F2 and run:
gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/compiz
Hope this helps some other poor soul that got carried away like I did.
May 1, 2008 at 12:31 am
I thought that turning all the effects off and turning them back on should reset your settings. At least it works for me.
May 1, 2008 at 12:35 am
That was my original line of thinking, but I couldn’t get that to work - at least the way I was doing it - I was going to Appearance Preferences and selecting “No Effects” and applying, and then “Standard Effects” and then applying.
May 4, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I am checking this site from Windows because I set my compiz settings such that no windows are readable (i.e. the video card does not seem to support the option I selected). If this solution works, then I can get back to normal from just the command line. I can get to the command line by pressing ++F6 (for example) to get to one of the background terminal screens sitting around outside of the normal X/desktop environment.
Thanks in advance for the help!!
May 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Kalin - I’m not sure if this would work in a VT outside of GNOME - I doubt it would hurt to try though.