Can I reset Unity 2D?

Question

I was playing around in Unity 2D, and I messed up my configuration. How can I reset it, preferably without losing other config files? (such as Empathy config, Firefox/Chrome config, etc)

Answer 1

Although this link may seem off topic, it covers some of the information I believe you are looking for.

Edit: Whoops, I see fossfreedom was already on the case.

Changing Unity Default Settings

User: fossfreedom points out,

The list of sessions is described in the directory:

/usr/share/xsessions

For unity-2d the session file is called:

ubuntu-2d.desktop

fossfreedom goes on to explain how to reset this to default. Hopefully, this method would leave your files intact.

Regards, SomaComa

Answer 2

Open a terminal and type

dconf reset -f /

to reset Unity 2D to defaults, or IMPORTANT - THIS RESETS EVERYTHING NOT JUST UNITY-2D

unity --reset

to reset Unity (3D).

If default Ubuntu Nautilus theme is also missing, close all instances and type

rm -R ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus

Answer 3

To reset unity type the following in the terminal:

unity --reset

To reset the unity icons type:

unity --reset-icons

To reset Compiz type (NOTE: this will reset ALL compiz settings):

   gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
unity --reset

The above command will reset the respective elements back to their default configuration.