16.04 Command line UI reset?











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I’m a noob trying to set up Ubuntu 16.04 for a Vision-impared user. Under System>Settings, I managed to make the UI so enormous that I can’t change it back to a more reasonable setting. I want to use the console to reset scaling and font sizes to their small values again. How do I do that, please?










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          OP again. This worked for me just now:
          On the command line: dconf reset -f /
          Then reboot.
          I was then able to get back into System Settings > Displays to reset my scale to a more reasonable value.



          Thank you for your patience.






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            OP again. This worked for me just now:
            On the command line: dconf reset -f /
            Then reboot.
            I was then able to get back into System Settings > Displays to reset my scale to a more reasonable value.



            Thank you for your patience.






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              On the command line: dconf reset -f /
              Then reboot.
              I was then able to get back into System Settings > Displays to reset my scale to a more reasonable value.



              Thank you for your patience.






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                OP again. This worked for me just now:
                On the command line: dconf reset -f /
                Then reboot.
                I was then able to get back into System Settings > Displays to reset my scale to a more reasonable value.



                Thank you for your patience.






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                OP again. This worked for me just now:
                On the command line: dconf reset -f /
                Then reboot.
                I was then able to get back into System Settings > Displays to reset my scale to a more reasonable value.



                Thank you for your patience.







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