How to reset ubuntu 9.10 theme to original/Human

Have you tried using the Change Desktop Background option? Right click mouse on your desktop an chose this option and on Appearance Preferences window you have the first tab named Theme. You can modify the appearance using predefined themes or custom themes.

Good luck.

Hi Cristi,

thanks for your answer, but I think this is more difficult, as the Apperance -> Theme mngr. shows only very dark themes. I would like to restore that to original, or to any "normal" themes.

I am not sure if I understand very well your problem. In your Theme Manager you don't have any Human or Clearlooks theme listed? Have you remove them?

You can reinstall the theme from the Ubuntu Packages:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/source/karmic/human-theme and use the Install option from your Theme Manager to install it

Good luck.

Also you can use in a terminal the command:

sudo apt-get install human-theme

if your theme is not installed anymore.

Hi,

thanks, i will try this once again. I have tried to install other "normal" theme but even that command line works, the themes are still very stange looking. I will post screenshot if this doesnt help.

I had same kind of problem with Ubuntu 8.04 or earlier and I could solve that by deleting some folders. This time it doesnt work.

Many thanks

OK, put some screenshots. Maybe will help more.

Hi,

here is the link for UI screenshot:
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2682/screenshottz.png

I don't need any specific theme, but I would need to change the black backgrounds (in the windows) and somehow reset theme configures. Is there any way to reset System/Appearance or can I re install 9.10 beta?

thanks

sudo apt-get --reinstall install ubuntu-artwork

should give you the stock wallpapers.

Hi,

thanks, I tried the last comment but it didn't solve all. The windows are still totally dark as well text boxes etc. The theme selections are not originals. Is there one single folder/file which I could reset (=where my/Audacious changes are stored)?

In the Customize Theme window you have in the Colors tab a "Reset to Defaults" button. Have you tried to use it?

Hi,

I have used it, pressed many times without any help.

thanks for your help.

And you are not able to manually change the colors?

if you navigate to systems -> preferences ->appearence

You can change the theme.

If all else fails you can always delete the ~/.g** folders as they hold the settings for gnome (including some apps and the display settings)

You could rename them instead and copy folders across from the old to the new to configure some apps and retain their settins.

Hi,

thank you for your answers.

I can change colours and the theme manually, but it seem that those don't affect anything.

Please, see the following screenshot:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/626/screenshot2w.png
In the screenshot you can see that I have Human theme selected and colours table opened. Colours table shows that the window and text box (input box) background colours are white, but in the window on the left (eBuddy login view) you see that the text box (input box) background is still dark.

I have also reseted colours and I tried to rename Gnome folders (under "etc" folder) to old_gnome etc. and I restarted the pc without changes.

At the moment I don't have a clue what I can change. Is there way to re install Ubuntu 9.10 or 9.04?

Thanks!

PostIt,

3 things to try; i run xUbuntu08.04-LTS and xUbuntu06.06-LTS, so the menu-path can be a bit different for you.

1. Re-install the desktop-environment files
<Application>,... <System>,... <Synaptic_Pckg_Manager>,...
first select the button <Reload>
when ready, in the right pane browse to the item
      Ubuntu-Gdm-Themes
Right-click and select <Mark for Re-Install>
Now on top select the button <Apply>
Reboot your PC to force the load of the refreshed theme-files.

2. Set user interface to "Human"
When completely logged in, start
<Application>,... <Settings>,... <Configuration>,...
Select <User_Interface> and set it to "Human"
Log out and in again, and look whether it works

3. If none of these works, you may want to re-install Ubuntu,
but then you have to save your data first (on CD, dvd or USB-memory-stick)
because halfway the installation process you can choose to clean and format the root-partition, so all the data (incl. the corrupted settings) is wiped out. Think before you begin this action! Try the other two first!

Hi all,

and thanks for your help. I promise that the System -> Preferences -> Appearance didn't work. I asked from a friend friend who said that I can use terminal.

He said type:
"mkdir t && mv .g* t && killall gnome-session"
which should save data and reset gnome.

I tried that but i got error, so I just typed
"sudo killall gnome-session"
which worked. I was logged out and the gnome / UI is fresh. Lets hope that everything works.

(btw. if you use the command line to reset gnome, this command should return your settings:
"rm -fr .g* && cp -rp t/.g* ~/ &&"
"killall gnome-session"

Next I will learn these linux commands.

thanks!