Strange blue theme after upgrade to Hardy

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: compiz

I upgraded a laptop from Gutsy to Hardy today (it never ran anything older that Gutsy). At one point during Gutsy, it was using compiz, but it was running metacity as of the 7.10 release due to its (intel) graphics device being blacklisted.

After the upgrade, my theme changed to one I haven't seen before, where the title bar uses large fonts on a blue background. I will attach a screenshot.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This may be a gnome settings issue; if so, please reassign.

After opening the Appearance preference dialog, the selected theme was 'Custom'. The preview showed orange title bars, not like what I was seeing on my screen. By clicking away to a different theme, and then back to 'Custom', I got the proper theming back.

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

I can confirm this. Not sure the cause.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Looks like yet another case where gtk-window-decorator does not listen to gnome-settings-daemon if it starts first.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

It appears as though gtk-window-decorator attaches to the
"style-changed" signal of a popup window it creates (but does not
show), in order to know when it should change the colour of
the titlebars.

It would then seem that this signal isn't triggered when
gnome-settings-daemon starts up later.

I had a look at the source of gnome-appearance-properties,
but I couldn't easily spot what it calls that triggers this signal,
and I can't currently reproduce to use gdb to help me. I will
try when this happens again.

I don't know enough to say whether it should also attach to
another method of working out when to change, or whether
settings-daemon should trigger this signal when starting.
Does anyone know?

Thanks,

James

[Jesse Burt (avsa242)]

Confirmed on Hardy/i386 Live CD from Feb 14th

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

gnome-session now makes sure gsd is started before compiz