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Naveen Reddy Marthala
Asked: 2020-10-08 23:09:03 +0800 CST

How to recover Ubuntu from changes made to files in gnome-shell/theme/

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I had made changes to file

usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic.css

And

usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource

to decrease space between icons in app list. But, my system is now broken and after restart, I can't boot into Ubuntu.

I can go to recovery mode and access my terminal and grub is available too. I am using 20.04. How do I reverse those changes and properly boot into Ubuntu.

gnome boot gnome-shell gnome-shell-extension restore

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have to reinstall the packages which provide these files - backup and reinstall:

    1. Backup:

      cp /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic.css ~/
cp /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource ~/

    2. Reinstall:

      sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell-extensions yaru-theme-gnome-shell

    3. Then reboot.

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