Still with me? You can backup before playing around with your settings in the future: mkdir. Improve this answer. Pablo Bianchi 9, 3 3 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 92 92 bronze badges. Shorten that last bit to mkdir. For Worst case one could also just go this in a terminal, I think it's a bit overkill as it will set all dconf gsettings back to defaults mv.
This helped for me in those two cases: gnome-panel config broken tried to specify location "left" for one gnome panel, it immediately crashed and could not be started afterwards GTK Theme and GTK Icons broken nevertheless the selection via e. Nicolas Nicolas 7 7 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. This helped with the missing Lock Screen menu option which is probably down to yet another corrupt dconf config — prusswan.
Saved my life! This is weird, i have to delete this file after every reboot to avoid login loop. Show 2 more comments. If you want to reset your GNOME specific settings to default as if you had never logged in try rm -rf.
Christopher Stansbury Christopher Stansbury 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. RolandiXor RolandiXor I've installed the again from the site but either all don't work or just some works — Tosho. Tosho a couple of things: 1. Did you check to see that the extensions you installed are compatible with your Gnome Shell version?
I've re-installed Ubuntu Gnome Now after some cleaning, re-installs and deleting, now most of them seems to work just fine. I'll leave it like it is for now.
Thanks — Tosho. You can use the mv command. The syntax is: mv source1 source2 source Explanation: This is moving the old configuration to backup destination.
Afterwards ubuntu restores the default configuration. Help, my Linux Desktop hangs! Since you are not satisfied with gnome-shell --replace , you might want to try restarting the display manager itself. I think that will kill other processes you are running. Wait for OK or Done message. If you don't see a message, look at your HDD light to see if Sync made a difference.
If you don't see a message in seconds, assume disks are unmounted or that an unmount is not possible and proceed. The currently most upvoted answer by Braiam misses some details. Some of the other answers didn't work for me. Hence, I am writing what did work for me. Note that this is tested on Ubuntu This should work in most cases. But once in a while, the shell may become completely unresponsive, or even this command may get stuck. In that case, go on to the following steps.
Go to a TTY. If you don't use sudo , you will get the Operation not permitted error. Re-execute step 3. Keep repeating step 3 until you get the PID of the new instance of the shell.
Note that this PID will not be the same as what you had got in step 3. Type exit and log out of the TTY. Return to the GUI. In Ubuntu This method did not close any of the applications that were running. Unsaved changes in such applications still existed without any problem. I think it is because kill -9 triggers a segfault which triggers gnome-shell to restart itself, while kill does not.
There's a bit of lag at the start when logging as it is re-instantiating all gnome objects be patient; but most if not all running programs should continue working. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Viewed k times. Improve this question. Does gnome-shell freezes while using the search-function in gnome-shell overview , or on what particular occasion, if you can tell? No, it freezes after login mostly , usually after undocking. So far, I didn't found a working solution. In the end, I end up with this workaround.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do I restart the window manager? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Active 9 months ago. Viewed k times. How to restart window manager so that styles or whatever are restored? I have reinstalled lightdm. I have restarted lightdm. Nothing seems to help. Is there a command line tool to reconfigure lightdm with?
Improve this question. Dmitry Volosnykh Dmitry Volosnykh 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. This is not an answer in any way but just saying, a nicer way to stop the networking service is by sudo service networking stop — Nitin Venkatesh.
Related: How can I restart x-server from the command line? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You may need to restart your display manager to fix your problem. Improve this answer. Maxwell 10 10 bronze badges. Omegamormegil Omegamormegil 1, 9 9 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Admittedly, the question is somewhat vague. But why would it be necessary to restart the display manager? The window manager is what provides window styles and restarting it is usually as effective as entering a new session.
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