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Is there an official tool that can save and restore gnome-specific settings ? I know several applications uses ~/.config, I don't care about them, just settings for gnome, e.g panel applets, keyboard shortcuts, and other application uses gconf.

P.S: it's best for both gnome2/3

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Usually it's enough to backup/restore ~/.config. Doesn't that work in your case? – phunehehe Jul 2 '12 at 5:41
@phunehehe Simply copying ~/.config doesn't work in my case (Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix 12.04) – user24321 Oct 6 '12 at 0:39

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Backup both ~/.config/ and ~/.gnome2/. You may as well also get ~/.icons and ~/.themes.

As far as i know, there is no ~/.gnome3/.

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Why only ~/.gnome2? There is no ~/.gnome3? What's the relationship between ~/.config and ~/.gnome{2,3}? – phunehehe Oct 6 '12 at 14:42
@phunehehe, see updated answer. As for the difference, each dir has different config files but i don't know the details. – terdon Oct 6 '12 at 15:38

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