Restore a users default profile settings in Fedora Gnome

[Vernon Brown_4]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

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

[dirk dierickx · Accepted solution]

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

[Vernon Brown_4]

Dirk; thanks; just what I was looking for.