Restoring Default Settings in Gnome Extensions: A Step-by-Step Guide

Gnome is one of the most popular desktop environments on Linux and Unix-like systems, thanks to its unique workflow, user-friendly design, and customizability with extensions. However, installing numerous extensions may cause unexpected issues, so you might want to revert to default extension settings.

Note: to reset gnome's extension setting to its default or original state, you must delete some files

Resetting extension setting

Open your favourite terminal application and run this xdg-open ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ command in the terminal.

xdg-open ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

This xdg-open command will open this path~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ with your default File Manager. You can delete the extension files from there.

Or

Run this rm -rf command to delete all files inside this ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ folder.

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*

Warning: if you run that command, it will delete those files permanently.

To apply this changes, you must restart or log out of the system.