When changed Screen Resolution, theme changed temporarily.

[Stargazers]

When I selected from System menu to change Screen resolution it worked fine. But, when I changed to other resolution, it changed the resolution but also changed the theme to blue theme. Also, GTK buttons was very stange looking, like they were in GTK 1.0. Couple of seconds later, maybe under 30sec my theme was back to normal default theme.

[Stargazers (aleksi-rasanen-deactivatedaccount)]

Update: Tried it again, only happens when changing resolution, not with refresh rate update. Now I changed resolution and my theme is changed (or at least colours of my theme) and now it didn't came back to normal. Also, when tried to change to another resolution after one change, it didn't change resolution.

[Łukasz Góralczyk (lukasz-goralczyk)]

I can confirm same behaviour. My laptop is sometimes connected to external LCD monitor. When I disconnect it and reboot I get strange resolution - after switching back to native resolution GTK theme is switched to some default (look, colours, icons).

Steps to reproduce:
1) Start Monitor Resolution Settings.
2) Change resolution to other than currently set.
3) Theme is set to default.
4) Side effects: when trying to reset the theme using "Appearance" applet this error appears: "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon' [...]"; X crash after trying to start "Appearance" one more time; setting the resolution doesn't work any more.

Current solution: log out and log in again.

My hardware: Benq P52 laptop (AMD64, 2 GB RAM, ATI X1600 /fglrx/, Ubuntu 8.10).

[Ken Resander (kresander)]

I confirm this.

In my case changing screen resolution from 800x600 to 640x480 causes change of appearance.

Using Ubuntu 8.10.
uname -a
Linux ken-desktop 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I am using the ubuntu's default theme Human. When changing screen resolution from 800x600 to 640x480 via System->Preferences->Appearance the screen appearance changes to that of theme Glider (the first listed by the Appearance GUI).

To produce: start Ubuntu, set resolution to 800x600 via System->Preferences->Screen Resolution. Then change resolution to 640x480 via same GUI. Appearance changes to Glider.

Work around: select System->Preferences->Appearance and do nothing. This causes the Human appearance theme to show.

[Martin Gerdzhev (mgerdjev)]

I'm also getting the same issue.
This is on Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates.
When changing the resolution the gtk theme changes.
When I try to change the appearance, the first time from System->Preferences->Appearance i get an error message saying "couldn't start gnome-settings-daemon ..." The second time I run the appearance program it fixes the problem.
So as soon as you change the screen resolution gnome-settings gets killed and that's why the theme gets set to the default gtk theme. I hope that would help solve the problem.

[Removed by request (removed1016696)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 8.10, with all updates.

[Albert Zeyer (albertzeyer)]

Same bug here, except that it stays at the GTK1 look and did not change back.

Also, the first start of the theme changer tool (under system settings) failed and said something about a not responding gnome-settings-daemon.

A second start of the theme changer tool changed the theme back to normal though.

[Bill Smith (bsmith1051)]

Still happening for me, as well. Ubuntu 8.10, all updates, ATI Proprietary Video (from repos), 1680x1050 LCD. When I change the res from 1680 to 1280x768 (as well as other combinations) the theme or appearance or something changes to a 'simpler' uglier setting.

Simply logging-off and then back in fixes it.

I haven't tried going into the Appearances configuration screen, but I will the next time I trigger it.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Are any of you not using the ATI Proprietary Driver?

[Albert Zeyer (albertzeyer)]

Yes, I am using Nvidia.