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unity-settings-daemon package

unity-settings-daemon doesn't load settings at boot

Bug #1369251 reported by Leonardo Donelli on 2014-09-14

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When booting my PC, my gtk and unity settings(gtk theme, icon theme, DPI scaling, ...) are not loaded and when I login I find myself in a "default" environment.
If I log-out and login again, the settings are loaded correctly.

Could this be caused by a really fast boot (3-4 seconds from GRUB to login screen, SSD) and a "unity version" of bug #574269?
I've tried editing the autostart script to add a little sleep but it seems to work only occasionally.

Attached x-0-greeter.log, is it useful?

Ubuntu 14.04.1
unity-settings-daemon Version: 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu1

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Leonardo Donelli (learts92) wrote on 2014-09-14:

x-0-greeter.log Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain)

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2014-09-23

affects:

unity-settings-daemon → unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-10-02:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Nicolas Riesco (nicolas-riesco) wrote on 2014-10-02:

As a workaround, I press Alt+F2 and run the command:

unity-settings-daemon -r

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Leonardo Donelli (learts92) wrote on 2014-10-03:

Nicolas, that works for me only for some settings like terminal profile, DPI settings, and window theme. It doesn't work for icon theme, at least it doesn't change the icons in the launcher.

My work around at the moment is to log out, move to "Guest" user in login screen, move back to my user and login. That usually does it.