The "experimental stars" feature freezes my computer

[CardboardTurkey]

The "experimental stars" feature freezes my computer

[macdew]

I had the same problem... never did find the localstorage file, but I noticed that switching to another console and back to the greeter would "unlock" for a brief moment and execute queued mouseclicks. By toggling back & forth I was able to get the menu up and switch off stars (they're pretty btw, but not worth it lol)

[NoiSek]

I haven't had the chance to look into this, but what you're asking here is essentially how to clear GTK's localStorage values. This is actually a question I've been meaning to track down the answer to for a long while but haven't had the time to investigate, but I can give you a starting point if you're interested in attempting to do it yourself.

Background

• Aether is a lightdm-webkit2-greeter theme
• lightdm-webkit2-greeter uses the webkit implementation of your current GTK (or Qt?) version, which is much closer to Safari than Chrome
• Aether stores it's config values in localStorage
• localStorage exists as a file, in the application / cache data of whichever webkit implementation is used.

Theoretically, the file that stores those values should be found in your home directory within a hidden folder. It might be a binary blob, or it might be a .sql file depending on implementation.

Also theoretically, you should be able to search for filenames or directories like 'localstorage' and find it, whether it's in your .cache / .config folders or perhaps in some variation of .gtk or .qt.

It should be noted that even if you do find those file(s), you probably won't be able to tell them apart from each other so delete with caution. If you use any web-based desktop applications it's entirely possible (but unlikely) that they're also storing values in localStorage.

[pierreantoine-cheron]

same problem but I found the solution !
delete the files inside /var/lib/lightdm/.local/webkitgtk/localstorage
it reset the theme
or you can find the location of your folder with fsearch in sudo