Reset GTK settings to default

twar07 · April 5, 2025, 4:37pm

Hello
Recently I came back to openSuse and some issues I solved myself (with great help from deepseek xD) but this one I can’t figure out.
This is cinnamon desktop and the look of title bar differ depending of the app, I know gtk3, gtk4, electron etc but after I’d lost all hope I added test user and to my surprise it look OK on that new account which leads me to this conclusion that I’ve messed something up and I can’t fix it now.

So the question is, which files I need to remove to reset those GTK settings/look to its default values?

And apparently I can’t attach screenshots so you won’t be able to see how it looks like.

ps Sorry for my poor english

OrsoBruno · April 5, 2025, 5:12pm

Welcome to the openSUSE Forums!
I don’t use Cinnamon, but being a Gnome derivative maybe it still uses the dconf tool for configuration.
Try launching a “dconf” app if you have one, or try dconf --help from the command line.
The corresponding user file should be /home/<user name>/.config/dconf/user

twar07 · April 5, 2025, 5:29pm

Already try that and didn’t help, in my case it looks like something fixated on some setting and won’t let go.
I’ve also noticed that no matter theme I set when I run:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme

I get “Menta” whetever that is. xD

deano_ferrari · April 5, 2025, 7:02pm

See if the following article might offer some insight here…

You could compare the ~/.themes directory between the two users for more clues.

This might be helpful too
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/m5wj3b/how_do_you_access_themes_in_linux_mint_cinnamon/

twar07 · April 6, 2025, 5:28am

I don’t think this can help since ~/.themes holds all locally “installed” themes which one is in use is written somewhere else but here are both:
mine

ls .themes/
Ant/                                        Nordic-Polar-standard-buttons/
Ant-alt-style/                              Nordic-Polar-standard-buttons-v40/
Ant-slim/                                   Orchis/
Ant-slim-standard-buttons/                  Orchis-Compact/
Ant-standard-buttons/                       Orchis-Dark/
Arc-Darkest/                                Orchis-Dark-Compact/
Flat-Remix-GTK-Black-Light-Solid/           Orchis-Light/
Flat-Remix-GTK-Blue-Darkest-Solid/          Orchis-Light-Compact/
Flat-Remix-GTK-Blue-Light/                  Qogir/
Fluent-compact/                             Qogir-Dark/
Fluent-Dark-compact/                        Qogir-Light/
Nordic-bluish-accent-standard-buttons/      Skeuos-Blue-Dark/
Nordic-bluish-accent-standard-buttons-v40/  Skeuos-Blue-Light/
Nordic-darker/                              VALYRIAN-Blue-Steel/

“the other guy”:

WhiteSur-Dark-nord  WhiteSur-Light

deano_ferrari · April 6, 2025, 6:20am

Is there a ~/.cinnamon directory (containing user-specific config)?

twar07 · April 6, 2025, 7:38am

While I was looking if there is in fact .cinnamon folder since I don’t have one I’ve found this page https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=187819 so here we go.

dconf dump /org/cinnamon/
[/]
alttab-switcher-delay=100
command-history=['~/.local/bin/zen', '~/bin/zen/zen', 'gnome-terminal --tab', 'chome', '~/.local/bin/chrome']
desktop-effects=false
desktop-effects-change-size=true
desktop-effects-minimize='traditional'
desktop-effects-workspace=true
enabled-applets=['panel1:left:0:menu@cinnamon.org:0', 'panel1:left:1:separator@cinnamon.org:1', 'panel1:left:2:grouped-window-list@cinnamon.org:2', 'panel1:right:0:systray@cinnamon.org:3', 'panel1:right:1:xapp-status@cinnamon.org:4', 'panel1:right:2:notifications@cinnamon.org:5', 'panel1:right:3:printers@cinnamon.org:6', 'panel1:right:4:removable-drives@cinnamon.org:7', 'panel1:right:5:keyboard@cinnamon.org:8', 'panel1:right:6:favorites@cinnamon.org:9', 'panel1:right:7:network@cinnamon.org:10', 'panel1:right:8:sound@cinnamon.org:11', 'panel1:right:9:power@cinnamon.org:12', 'panel1:right:10:calendar@cinnamon.org:13', 'panel1:right:11:cornerbar@cinnamon.org:14']
next-applet-id=15
window-effect-speed=1

[desktop/background]
picture-uri='file:///home/tomasz/Pictures/background_nord2_96_dpi.png'

[desktop/background/slideshow]
delay=15
image-source='directory:///home/tomasz/Pictures'

[desktop/interface]
cursor-blink-time=1200
cursor-size=24
cursor-theme='volantes_light_cursors'
gtk-theme='Matcha-light-aliz'
icon-theme='Nordzy-cyan-dark'

[desktop/keybindings]
looking-glass-keybinding=@as []

[desktop/keybindings/media-keys]
screensaver=['<Super>l', 'XF86ScreenSaver']

[desktop/peripherals/keyboard]
delay=uint32 500
repeat-interval=uint32 30

[desktop/peripherals/mouse]
double-click=400
drag-threshold=8
speed=0.0

[desktop/peripherals/touchpad]
send-events='disabled'
speed=0.0

[desktop/sound]
event-sounds=false

[desktop/wm/preferences]
button-layout='close,maximize,minimize:'
min-window-opacity=30

[gestures]
swipe-down-2='PUSH_TILE_DOWN::end'
swipe-down-3='TOGGLE_OVERVIEW::end'
swipe-down-4='VOLUME_DOWN::end'
swipe-left-2='PUSH_TILE_LEFT::end'
swipe-left-3='WORKSPACE_NEXT::end'
swipe-left-4='WINDOW_WORKSPACE_PREVIOUS::end'
swipe-right-2='PUSH_TILE_RIGHT::end'
swipe-right-3='WORKSPACE_PREVIOUS::end'
swipe-right-4='WINDOW_WORKSPACE_NEXT::end'
swipe-up-2='PUSH_TILE_UP::end'
swipe-up-3='TOGGLE_EXPO::end'
swipe-up-4='VOLUME_UP::end'
tap-3='MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE::end'

[muffin]
draggable-border-width=10

[settings-daemon/peripherals/keyboard]
numlock-state='off'

[settings-daemon/plugins/xsettings]
menus-have-icons=true

[theme]
name='Qogir-Dark'

dconf dump /org/nemo/
[search]
search-reverse-sort=false
search-sort-column='name'

[window-state]
geometry='800x551+465+177'
maximized=true
sidebar-bookmark-breakpoint=5
start-with-sidebar=true

dconf dump /org/gtk/
[gtk4/settings/file-chooser]
show-hidden=false
sort-directories-first=false

[settings/file-chooser]
date-format='regular'
location-mode='path-bar'
show-hidden=false
show-size-column=true
show-type-column=true
sidebar-width=151
sort-column='name'
sort-directories-first=false
sort-order='ascending'
type-format='category'
window-position=(465, 149)
window-size=(990, 742)

OrsoBruno · April 6, 2025, 2:57pm

So Cinnamon is indeed using dconf, and renaming/deleting /home/<user name>/.config/dconf/user didn’t help?

twar07 · April 9, 2025, 9:03pm

Yep.
I deleted this file and that didn’t change anything.
I have no idea why, when I get home I’ll try to load dconf as that mint forum says but I have no big expectations.

OrsoBruno · April 10, 2025, 9:18am

‘Menta’ appears to be a Mate theme: do you have / had Mate installed alongside Cinnamon?
Maybe the two interfere? Being both Gnome (v2?) derivatives maybe they mix and match settings?
Check what you have currently:

zypper se cinnamon-theme mate-theme

twar07 · April 13, 2025, 6:55am

I’m not aware of installing anything from Mate desktop but right now I have no access to that notebook since I’m on short vacations, will check when I’m back.

system · May 13, 2025, 6:55am

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