# How to reset themes and layout?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** themes, faq, icons\
**Created:** [April 24, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879 "2022-04-24T19:23:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@downey](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879/1 "2022-04-24T19:23:58Z")

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I’m a Linux noob,  
I deleted all the contents of my themes and icons folders. i wanted to reinstall the themes through the themes and layout application but its like the application doesn’t register that i deleted them.

how can i fix this issue?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879/2 "2022-04-24T19:36:07Z")

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Hi and welcome.

Basically everything in /usr/share/themes and /usr/share/icons belongs to a debian package.

So the fact that you have remove the contents means a reinstall of the said packages will recreate those folders.

Its a question though as to what packages.

> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/493637/how-can-i-recover-from-deleting-the-usr-share-themes-directory/493640#493640>

So at a minimum I would reinstall

```
sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-budgie-themes pocillo-icon-theme gnome-themes-extra arc-theme
```

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**Author:** ![downey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@downey](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879/3 "2022-04-24T20:00:26Z")

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thank you this worked! i really appreciate the insanely fast reply as well.  
if i were to do this again in the future, how would i correctly uninstall themes?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-reset-themes-and-layout/5879/4 "2022-04-24T20:04:15Z")

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to be honest I wouldn’t. Certain packages have to exist on your system.

If you have installed a theme or icon-theme via a deb packagename manually then you can safely remove that package via

```
sudo apt purge packagename
```