Cheese config file location

I would like to do a fresh install of cheese. I have purge-removed the package and re-installed but when I open up cheese it has my old settings. Where are the cheese config files located? I would like to remove the cheese config file and I have tried searching for the config file in my home directory with

~ $ find -name '*cheese*'

But I still can't find it. I am running ubuntu 12.10.

Solution 1:

In the habit of Gnome applications, Cheese stores its configuration data in the dconf configuration system rather than in plain files.

To access that, you could use a GUI program called dconf-editor from the package dconf-tools :

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Cheese uses the /apps/cheese /org/gnome/cheese^{(since 14.04)} gconf path:

You could easily play with the settings (they all typically have well-documented schemata displayed in the bottom of the dconf-editor window), and, ultimately, wipe the settings clean by resetting the values to defaults (non-defaults are highlighted with bold font as you can see on my screenshot).

Besides dconf-editor, you can also do this from the command line:

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.Cheese:/apps/cheese

UPD since I don't know when, that gives an error:

Schema “org.gnome.Cheese” is not relocatable (path must not be specified)

Which simply asks to call it without the /apps/cheese path, like this:

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.Cheese