{"id":1261,"date":"2013-08-08T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2013-08-09T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:34:31","slug":"reset-unity-and-compiz-in-ubuntu-13-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/reset-unity-and-compiz-in-ubuntu-13-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Unity and Compiz in Ubuntu 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-ubuntu-unity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-ubuntu-unity.jpg\" alt=\"reset unity desktop\" width=\"250\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1262\" \/><\/a>This tutorial shows you how to reset your Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Unity and Compiz to the default settings if you messed up your desktop. All you need to do is run two commands in terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be scared if you&#8217;re not comfortable with terminal commands. Just copy the code via <b>Ctrl+C<\/b>, then paste into terminal via <b>Ctrl+Shift+V<\/b> and finally hit Enter to run.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open a terminal window. When it opens, run below command to reset Unity and Compiz settings:<\/p>\n<pre>dconf reset -f \/org\/compiz\/<\/pre>\n<p>After running previous command, you need to run blow command to restart Unity.<\/p>\n<pre>setsid unity<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-unity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-unity.jpg\" alt=\"reset unity\" width=\"460\" height=\"101\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-unity.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reset-unity-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get back the default set of Unity Launcher icons, run below command and then log out and back in.<\/p>\n<pre>unity --reset-icons<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to restore default icon theme, use <b>Unity Tweak Tool<\/b> which is available in Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows you how to reset your Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Unity and Compiz to the default settings if you messed up your desktop. All you need to do is run two commands in terminal. Don&#8217;t be scared if you&#8217;re not comfortable with terminal commands. Just copy the code via Ctrl+C, then paste into terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[407,406,37],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unity","tag-reset-compiz","tag-reset-unity","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}