Monday, May 13, 2019

Reset Gnome settings to default

I had some trouble with my touchpad not working, which I suspect was caused by an extension that broke during an upgrade.  I tried removing the extension but the problem persisted.

The touchpad worked in the GDM menu, but stopped working on login so I attributed the problem to a Gnome configuration.  Since I don't have too many custom gnome settings I decided to reset them:

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/

This did the trick.  On login the touchpad was working just fine (except for the fact that tap clicking is disabled by default in gnome.)