Lawrence D’Oliveiro shares a simple hack to efficiently remove unneeded layouts from your .blend file.
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Or you could just save your startup file with only the Screen Layouts you want.
Except when the layouts I want to keep might vary from one project to the next. :)
I have a .blend file that freezes whenever I switch to a certain screen layout, so unfortunately this didn't help as much as I had hoped. It could be due to using multiple windows. The layout has no way of splitting, joining or changing windows. I can switch out of the layout, thankfully, with ctrl+arrow, so it's not a huge problem.
*tries one more thing...*
Aaaaaand I just found the way to delete an unresponsive layout without creating a new file & importing all of my scenes to it: create a keyboard shortcut to delete a layout by right-clicking the X button by the layout menu and choosing "Add shortcut". I chose alt+ctrl+shift+end to reduce risk of conflicts. Works even when nothing is clickable.
Do you still have a copy of the problem version? Report it as a bug.
I've tried to replicate the bug, but I'm not entirely sure what caused it. Everything I've tried results in zero problems, so unfortunately I don't have enough info to write a good bug report. Basically it would be "Go to layout HOME.001, why does nothing change and why is nothing clickable?" "Steps to replicate: still figuring that out". Might just be a bad file. I've done a lot to it.
If I can figure out how to reproduce the bug, I'll file one, though.
Wow it's almost 5 years since you wrote this and this bug isn't fixed. I duplicated one of my screen layouts when using a projector to extend my screen, and the layout is totally frozen. Luckily I can use the other layouts but can't delete the frozen one, even with your shortcut tip. Is there any way of doing it that doesn't require activating the faulty screen layout? Thanks.