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Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

Vernon Brown_4 — Sun, 16 May 2004 14:52:00 GMT

In Fedora Gnome; does anyone know of a way to restore an old users profiles the defaults that a newly created user gets.

I'm interested in particular to the error response in vim that beeps; there is a setting somewhere that causes the screen to flash in addition to the beep.

I need to restore the screen flash to the familiar beep only.

I've been searching for a few hours now :o)

Thanks for any help; any response welcome !!

Vern

Re: Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 16 May 2004 18:01:17 GMT

if you create a new user they should get the default profile

.bash_profile

Many unices have /etc/skel which lets you set up a default user profile

SEP

Re: Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

Vernon Brown_4 — Sun, 16 May 2004 20:12:47 GMT

Hi Steven; I did the remove user; add user sequence once before; problem was that the new user doesn't get the same numeric user.group ID. So SU must go in and change user.group of all files owned by the user.

Hoped there would be a magic "RESTORE.DEFAULTS", somewhere :o)

Thanks for your response !!

Vern

Re: Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

dirk dierickx — Mon, 17 May 2004 01:04:44 GMT

you can also delete the .gnome/.gnome2 folders in the user directory to get back to the default gnome desktop.

Re: Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

Vernon Brown_4 — Mon, 17 May 2004 06:03:09 GMT

Dirk; thanks; just what I was looking for.