In what files in the home dir does gnome store the user config data?

Question

In what files/dirs in the home dir does gnome store the user config data?

Or if you like.

What files do I need to restore from backup in order to restore my gnome desktop with all the different settings I made?

Thanks Johan

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Edit: All user config files is usually stored somewhere in /home/$USER/. And since all the programs, kde, xfce and gnome stores their config there, this question is about what files belong to the gnome desktop.

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The file list:

This is my guess of what files belong to the gnome desktop

• .gconf/
• .gconfd/
• .gnome2/
• .gnome2_private/
• .nautilus/

And some parts of

• .config/

Did I miss something?

Answer 1

Also don't forget ~/.config, which a lot of Gnome (and other) application use nowadays.

It's the 'XDG/freedesktop' standard location , and usually configured to be at ~/.config

Ohh, but why just backup the whole home dir (or atleast all dot files and directories)?

Answer 2

I believe it's in your /home/"Username" directory, right click in the window and show hidden files, all folders starting with a . (fullstop) are hidden folders normally holding config.