Home Directory Contents / Settings Cached Somewhere?
On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that first user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory (simply 'rm -r /home/user; mkdir /home/user; chown user.user /home/user). When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
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On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that first user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory (simply 'rm -r /home/user; mkdir /home/user; chown user.user /home/user). When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
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On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that first user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory (simply 'rm -r /home/user; mkdir /home/user; chown user.user /home/user). When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
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On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that first user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory (simply 'rm -r /home/user; mkdir /home/user; chown user.user /home/user). When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
18.04 themes home-directory cache
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
– guiverc
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
– guiverc
2 mins ago
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rf does not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in ~/.config/xfce4/ that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
2 mins ago
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rf does not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in ~/.config/xfce4/ that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
2 mins ago
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
2 mins ago