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.

penreturns · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24T10:11:36.563

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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.

edited Oct 24 '12 at 10:11

answered Sep 30 '12 at 21:11

penreturns

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Worked perfectly. Thank you @penreturn for your assistance. This makes Ubuntu look good again. There are other threads on similar lines, shall go there and redirect them here. It may help them. – katya sehgal Sep 30 '12 at 21:19
Great! Enjoy Ubuntu Sir! – penreturns Sep 30 '12 at 21:21
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+1 Nice answer. I deleted mine as it was completely wrong. D'oh! – Tom Brossman Sep 30 '12 at 21:23
This just made my terminal completely black and I was unable to read anything then all the text turn black – Kalamalka Kid Jan 08 '16 at 21:00
This did not work for me, but replacing all the '' with the theme name did. For example, gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Ambiance' – cs01 Mar 16 '16 at 17:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '24 at 11:35

When trying penreturns's answer, I encountered UI unresponsiveness at some steps. So, it may actually be better to copy and paste the commands and run them as a one-liner.

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

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-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 ''; \
gsettings reset com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites; \
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

After run this command logout and login back.

However, I did see the following errors:

Command 'gconftool-2' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gconf2
No such schema “com.canonical.Unity.Launcher”
No such schema “com.canonical.Unity.Panel”

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 17 '15 at 21:45

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

unity --reset-icons

This will reset the Unity icon cache.

edited Jul 17 '15 at 21:45

Kaz Wolfe

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answered Jul 16 '15 at 16:59

shahnoor rahman

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 06 '13 at 21:14

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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