Delete gnome terminal configuration

Question

I made a mistake in my gnome terminal configuration. I entered a command to start with in the preferences, but that command fails, and now all I get is a window that opens and closes right away, and I basically can't use gnome terminal anymore:-( Is there any way I can remove the configuration file and restart fresh??

Thanks!

Answer 1

Open the XTerm (Standard terminal for linux) and enter this command

gnome-terminal -e bash

It opens the gnome-terminal. Open profile preferences and configure your terminal to "Hold the terminal open".

Editing preferences

Answer 2

$HOME/.gconfd/saved_state

the above file might be of interest depending on exactly what configuration you changed. Of course, it holds configuration from other programs as well.

Answer 3

If you are on the newer gnome terminal that uses dconf, it's a little trickier, but still doable:

Profiles are stored with a UUID, you need to find the UUID of the profile to remove:

dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/ | less

Search for a visible-name='...' entry matching the profile you want to remove. Look above that for the section header like [legacy/profiles:/:...] . The full name of the item you want to delete is thus /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:... . Delete it thus:

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:...

Side note: This Q&A probably should be moved to unix.stackexchange.com.