Where are the Home Directory Contents / Settings Cached in Ubuntu 18.04?
On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that previous user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory, like
rm -r /home/user
mkdir /home/user
chown user.user /home/user
When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
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On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that previous user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory, like
rm -r /home/user
mkdir /home/user
chown user.user /home/user
When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
1
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27
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On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that previous user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory, like
rm -r /home/user
mkdir /home/user
chown user.user /home/user
When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
On a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, some settings related to the theme turned everything in the GUI (xfce) unreadable. I logged out, logged in as another user, deleted that previous user's directory and recreated it as an empty directory, like
rm -r /home/user
mkdir /home/user
chown user.user /home/user
When I logged back in as 'user', some of the theme settings were somehow still there. Where are these being stored if not in the user's home directory? How can I get rid of them to give a user a completely fresh start?
18.04 themes home-directory cache
18.04 themes home-directory cache
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
edited Jan 23 at 9:35
thephoenix01
498616
498616
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
asked Jan 23 at 5:16
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
112
1
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27
add a comment |
1
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as arm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.
– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27
1
1
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rf does not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in ~/.config/xfce4/ that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rf does not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in ~/.config/xfce4/ that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27
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I found the problem. After logging out, there were still a bunch of processes running as the user I wanted to give a fresh start to (systemd, dbus processes, gvfs processes and more). If I log out, kill all those and then recreate the home directory I then get the fresh start I was looking for.
answered Jan 23 at 5:54
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
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I found the problem. After logging out, there were still a bunch of processes running as the user I wanted to give a fresh start to (systemd, dbus processes, gvfs processes and more). If I log out, kill all those and then recreate the home directory I then get the fresh start I was looking for.
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add a comment |
I found the problem. After logging out, there were still a bunch of processes running as the user I wanted to give a fresh start to (systemd, dbus processes, gvfs processes and more). If I log out, kill all those and then recreate the home directory I then get the fresh start I was looking for.
answered Jan 23 at 5:54
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
add a comment |
I found the problem. After logging out, there were still a bunch of processes running as the user I wanted to give a fresh start to (systemd, dbus processes, gvfs processes and more). If I log out, kill all those and then recreate the home directory I then get the fresh start I was looking for.
answered Jan 23 at 5:54
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
I found the problem. After logging out, there were still a bunch of processes running as the user I wanted to give a fresh start to (systemd, dbus processes, gvfs processes and more). If I log out, kill all those and then recreate the home directory I then get the fresh start I was looking for.
answered Jan 23 at 5:54
R K MaroonR K Maroon
112
answered Jan 23 at 5:54
R K MaroonR K Maroon
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answered Jan 23 at 5:54
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Did you actually delete everything? as a
rm * -rfdoes not delete any files starting with "." - and it's in ~/.local/, ~/.config` etc that config files usually exist. XFCE stores most in~/.config/xfce4/that I suspect is what you were trying to delete, but missed.– guiverc
Jan 23 at 5:24
Thanks but I definitely deleted the entire directory (rm -rf /home/user), rather than contents within it.
– R K Maroon
Jan 23 at 5:27