Have you installed and been running some other DE besides Gnome?I just had a power cut and its now booting in the default Gnome DE.
Have you installed and been running some other DE besides Gnome?I just had a power cut and its now booting in the default Gnome DE.
No.Have you installed and been running some other DE besides Gnome?
Sadly no that didn't work eitherThis hasn't been said yet. Try creating a new user as a test and login with that user and make some changes to your desktop settings logout or reboot and then see if the settings are saved or reset again. If the settings for this user don't reset than you know it's a user specific problem.
They're both internalLooking at your partitions again (and not knowing Wizard's intentions)... I notice 3 total drives. Ubuntu is on /dev/sda, and you've got a 750G on /dev/sdb and a 1TB on /dev/sdc. If either or both are external USB hard drives, can you try unplugging (both, if both are external)... then reboot, then test adding Chromium to the panel and see if it survives another reboot.
If both are internal... don't go to all that trouble. I'm just taking a wild guess on this one.
Gnome Login soundThe only thing that explains the resetting of all your desktop setting if that something is clearing your user configuration settings, so $HOME/.config is being cleared every time you logout/login or reboot/login. If you open the menu and search for "Startup Application Preferences", what do you see there?
I wonder what angle @wizardfromoz is looking at with hard drive partitions?
Just installed UALinux GamePack. It's based on Ubuntu 20.04 with some tweaks in looks and installed packages, I check the startup applications and the same ones are listed as OP shared so it's not vanilla Ubuntu. I added a few favorites to to the launch bar and rebooted, after the reboot the ones I added dissapeared except for the filemanager and one was added which I didn't add myself. See attached screenshots, so it seems to be an UALinux "thing". So I would say works as intended by the creator of the distribution.UALinux references are interesting.
UALinux is a Ukrainian game pack distro based on Ubuntu Games Pack.
@Clownish are you actually running a legitimate Ubuntu, or is it UALinux?
1. Do the following to prevent it from resetting your settings, open a terminal and do the following:gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['firefox.desktop', 'thunderbird.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.DiskUtility.desktop']"
2. Then find the line that mentions the the line I mentioned before which comes right after workplace and comment it out so it looks like this.sudo gedit /etc/skel/.config/ualinux/gnome_win.sh
3. Save the file and add favorites and other personal settings, reboot your system, log back in your settings and favorite should still be there.#gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['firefox.desktop', 'thunderbird.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.DiskUtility.desktop']"
Keep mind that during an update they my revert this change so you may run into it again in the future, just so you know what to do if it happens again. Whoever thought of this bug/feature for this distribution is a ******* IDIOT!!!! Going to bed now it's almost 4:00am here just had to figure out what was causing this.cd $HOME/.config/autostart
mkdir disabled
mv .ualinux_gnome_win.desktop disabled
UALinux references are interesting.
UALinux is a Ukrainian game pack distro based on Ubuntu Games Pack.
@Clownish are you actually running a legitimate Ubuntu, or is it UALinux?
It's based on Ubuntu 20.04 with some tweaks in looks and installed packages, I check the startup applications and the same ones are listed as OP shared so it's not vanilla Ubuntu. I added a few favorites to to the launch bar and rebooted, after the reboot the ones I added dissapeared except for the filemanager and one was added which I didn't add myself. See attached screenshots, so it seems to be an UALinux "thing".
Thank you so much! This worked! Thanks to all of you for your help! You'll no doubt be hearing more from me in future lol. Thanks again for everybodies help. Thank you thank you thank you!!@Clownish I found the problem and I put the solution in easy to follow steps for you in this post as well. You may not understand all of it, the parts in bold are the important parts for you, I take it the rest following this thread will find this information interesting to read since they will understand the whole post.
I found the script responsible for resetting the users settings after each login: $HOME/.config/autostart/.ualinux_gnome_win.desktop, this script launches another script(/etc/skel/.config/ualinux/gnome_win.sh) at login that executes some settings for gnome as well as the following:
1. Do the following to prevent it from resetting your settings, open a terminal and do the following:
2. Then find the line that mentions the the line I mentioned before which comes right after workplace and comment it out so it looks like this.
3. Save the file and add favorites and other personal settings, reboot your system, log back in your settings and favorite should still be there.
*You can also disable the script if you still run into some user settings that get reset.
Keep mind that during an update they my revert this change so you may run into it again in the future, just so you know what to do if it happens again. Whoever thought of this bug/feature for this distribution is a ******* IDIOT!!!! Going to bed now it's almost 4:00am here just had to figure out what was causing this.