Restore Default for Terminal

[nothingspecial]

rm: cannot remove `/home/jarid/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal': No such file or directory

You should have that directory, weird

[J697]

What version of Ubuntu do you have? Is it Kubuntu? Lubuntu?

10.10
AFAIK it is the one you get wgen you go go to:

www.ubuntu.com

[nothingspecial]

find - -name *terminal

That should be

find ./ -name *terminal

[J697]

That should be

find ./ -name *terminal

When I do that, the only thing that happens is that the cursor breaks to another line and repetabley flashes.

[nothingspecial]

Does your terminal open in your home directory?

ns@ns-net:~$ cd .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal
ns@ns-net:~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal$ ls
%gconf.xml  profiles
ns@ns-net:~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal$ 

ns@ns-net:~$ find ./ -name *terminal
./.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal

See, all this works for me. You have something different going on.

[star123]

rm: cannot remove `/home/jarid/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal': No such file or directory



That was the first thing I tried

can u pls tell wen u went through the procedure wat result u got i mean didnt u get the option to customize ur terminal or set it to default??

[J697]

Well, I would rather not reinstall Ubuntu. I guess maybe I can live with how it looks

[nothingspecial]

Well, I would rather not reinstall Ubuntu. I guess maybe I can live with how it looks

yeah, don`t do that just because you don`t like the way the terminal looks.

I`m interested though, as to why you don`t have that directory -- you should.

[sigilbaram]

It seems gnome-terminal does not use ~/.gconf/gnome-terminal, at least any more. I moved the whole thing to ~/.gconf/gnome-terminal.bak and my customisations stayed the same. I was trying to restore Ubuntu's default color pallet because the "Custom" default one was lost when I looked at the other pallets, which I didn't like as much. From TTY1 I did

killall gnome-terminal
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-terminal

which didn't help either. The color pallet isn't that big of an issue but this missing/ignored configuration files thing is kind of interesting.

Edit:
Oh and "find ~/ -name gnome-terminal" found nothing.