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I had Tilda installed and working just fine. I then installed Zsh in an attempt to see which GIT branch I am currently checked out into. Zsh didn't work out for me so I used sudo apt-get remove --purge zsh -y to remove it.

After uninstalling Zsh, Tilda malfunctioned. It presents a prompt, no text and does not accept any input.

I have uninstalled using sudo apt-get remove --purge tilda -y and re-installed Tilda but it made no difference.

Even after purging it from the system, Ubuntu reuses the same settings after I have re-installed.

The screen shot below shows my Tilda HUD instance. It might be hard to see why I included it but the top left hand corner shows the promt. Other than that, Tilda is suddenly and inexplicably useless.

I need help, please.

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sisko
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The --purge option will remove config files installed system-wide by APT itself. But there are also per-user config files created by Tilda. On my system (20.04.1), I can see:

$ find ~ -iname \*tilda\*
~/.config/autostart/tilda.desktop
~/.config/tilda
~/.cache/tilda

In ~/.config/tilda, you should see several files starting with config_, these are different versions of Tilda's preference. You may try a diff between these files and look for something related to zsh.

Also, after you've quit tilda, you can safely remove ~/.cache/tilda, then restart tilda and hope that it will fix your problem...

Gilles Bassière
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  • Thanks Giles. I found all the files you indicated. I uninstalled Tilda then deleted all the related files in all 3 of those directories. When I restarted, the previously use settings were all gone BUT is still unuseable. Still presents nothing more than a prompt and accepts no input. – sisko Nov 10 '20 at 16:03
  • Can you confirm that other terminal emulator are not affected by the problem? If you run Ubuntu's default "Terminal" application, does it work fine? – Gilles Bassière Nov 10 '20 at 17:08
  • @Giles Bassiere: Yes, the default terminal is working just fine. I would just use the default terminal but it will make my work flow slower and far less efficient. – sisko Nov 11 '20 at 04:09
  • Bind your terminal to a hotkey like `sh -c "wmctrl -x -a Gnome-terminal || gnome-terminal", and your workflow will be like with tilda or better. Still, strange how purging everything does not rescue tilda to life on your system. – vanadium Nov 11 '20 at 10:49
  • @vanadium: I just tried that command but it resulted in a newline with a greated-than symbol indicating the command is incomplete. Can you help me understand how I can use that to configure a hotkey for terminal? Also, I don't see where in that command to specify my hotkey value. – sisko Nov 11 '20 at 13:11
  • You need to include the end " in the command. Bind this command to a shortcut key (Settings - Keyboard Shortcuts in standard Ubuntu). – vanadium Nov 11 '20 at 16:29
  • @vanadium: I didn't realise I missed the end character. Thanks – sisko Nov 11 '20 at 19:09