{"id":3169,"date":"2014-04-12T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T07:08:41","slug":"reset-unity-and-compiz-settings-in-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/reset-unity-and-compiz-settings-in-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset Unity and Compiz Settings in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\" alt=\"reset unity ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to reset unity and compiz if you messed up your Unity desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. All you need to do is run two commands in a terminal window.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be scared if you&#8217;re not comfortable with Linux commands. Just copy the code via <b>Ctrl+C<\/b>, then paste it into the 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 the below command to reset Unity and Compiz settings:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">dconf reset -f \/org\/compiz\/<\/pre>\n<p>After that, run the below command to restart Unity:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">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>Now your unity desktop and compiz effects should reset to the original status. <\/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 style=\"border:none;\">unity --reset-icons<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to restore default icon theme, use Unity Tweak Tool which is available in Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to reset unity and compiz if you messed up your Unity desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. All you need to do is run two commands in a terminal window. Don&#8217;t be scared if you&#8217;re not comfortable with Linux commands. Just copy the code via Ctrl+C, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[407,406,855],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-reset-compiz","tag-reset-unity","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}