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After I upgraded to 11.10, I made some mistake which totally destroyed Unity(I'm not sure at all what I did). I deleted all the configuration files that I knew of, and now at least it will start, but it's using the Raleigh theme and the Gnome icon theme. I can't do anything to change it in Gnome-Tweak or Appearance settings. The problem isn't just limited to unity; it affects Gnome, too. If login to the guest session, everything is fine.

The themes, theme engines, and icon themes are installed.

Note: I have tried everything, and no answer on this site has fixed my problem, including this one

So is there a way to reset everything back the way it was, but still keep my bookmarks, passwords, and application settings?

unity --reset doesn't work.

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bntser
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Since login to guest works nice why not create a new user, backup your files in to the new user account, delete the old user?

Bruno Pereira
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As far as I know, everything in linux is a file. Therefore, this should be enough to reset gnome : 

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

After removal, log out, and back log in.

BЈовић
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After a lot of trying things out, I backed up my .config folder, created a new account, and replaced my config folder with the new one.

bntser
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