PS: Oops, the ls output of my previous mail is odd. So again, I guess all settings are saved in $ ls -Fd .config/xfce4* .local/share/xfce4* .config/xfce4/ .config/xfce4-session/ .local/share/xfce4/ Perhaps no settings are saved in dconf, but you never know. $ ls -Fd .config/dconf .config/dconf/