Update for UbuntuMATE 16.04.6 broke the GUI

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 00:04:29 UTC 2019


Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 15:15:58 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>>Bret Busby wrote:
>>  
>>>How do I access, or, reset, my profile for my primary account?    
>>
>>This should do it:
>>
>>https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1460874
>>
>>The final post from JCollierDavis in that thread looks like it
>>covers everything that would be needed. Also, since you're moving
>>your home directory and making a fresh copy, you'll be creating a
>>backup as you do this, so if anything goes wrong, it's reversible.  
>
>If you want to get an old wallpaper from the wall, use a sledgehammer
>to tear down the wall, then build up a new wall and you get a wall
>without an old wallpaper.

Okay. It's not necessarily a bad idea, though, when you don't know
for sure what got corrupt. Using this method, he will keep only his
personal data, which will make sure that what he doesn't want won't
be kept.

>I even wouldn't reset all Mate schemas, however running
>
>  gsettings list-schemas | grep org.mate | xargs -n 1 gsettings
> reset-recursively
>
>likely resets most Mate related apps.

Thank you. Hopefully that will help Bret.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list