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katya sehgal
Asked: 2012-10-01 11:55:16 +0800 CST

How do I restore the original color scheme, icons, and theme?

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I'd like the original colour scheme, icon style of 12.04.

I somehow lost the Ambiance theme (possible error or upgrade error). I re-installed 'light-themes' from the terminal and got it back.

But the panel on the top that shows the options of sound, battery and wi-fi has changed and I can-not get the original setting back.

In the windows, the close, minimize tools have shifted to the right instead of the original left side.

I had installed MyUnity and Ubuntu Tweak but deleted them. As such, I want the original setting back.

Kindly help me with the commands.

I have searched for solutions; there are multiple and I need to be sure if I should follow the same. Kindly bear before marking duplicate.

Discoveries:

  • The appearance is gray and boxy as outlined here. Not sure same problem.

  • Similar 'gray and boxy' article here.

  • Desktop forgets theme.

  • I have also tried the unity --reset command. It never completes. I gave it 20 minutes.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Open terminal Ctrl+Alt+T and run following command:

    Reset Icon Pack

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme ''

    Reset Theme

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme ''

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme ''

gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/metacity/general/theme ''

    Reset Launcher

    gsettings reset com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

    Reset Panel

    gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

    After run this command logout and login back.

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  2. Try running the following command from a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).

    unity --reset-icons

    This will reset the Unity icon cache.

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  3. What you can do is reinstall MyUnity and open up the themes menu. There is a button to reset it to the defaults, but you can manually set the theme to "Ambiance" and the icon theme to "Ubuntu-Mono-Dark" and that should bring you back to the default 12.04 set-up.

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