non-default color theme corrupted after gnome-settings-daemon restart

[Antti Kaihola]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

In Lucid (up-to-date as of 2010-01-17, gnome-terminal 2.28.1-1ubuntu1), whenever gnome-settings-daemon dies, the color theme of open Gnome-Terminal sessions changes, as expected. The colors change to black on light gray (#dcdad5), which apparently is Gnome-Terminal's own default.

One would expect the colors to change back when gnome-settings-daemon is started again.

However, the colors don't change back to what is set in the profile. Instead I get a strange dark gray (#1a1a1a) on light pink (#e6ddd5) color theme.

Selecting another color theme and switching back to the original in Profile Preferences does fix the colors back to normal.

This is especially annoying as I've changed the default system color theme to the "Gray on black" built-in theme in Gnome-Terminal. In this case the colors are
- gray on light gray after gnome-settings-daemon dies
- gray on light pink after gnome-settings-daemon is restarted

Due to this bug I've noticed that it's not rare for gnome-settings-daemon to restart. It does that when gnome packages are updated (very often at this point in Lucid), and sometimes for no apparent reason.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 19 10:13:18 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100102)
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Tags: ubuntu-unr lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686

[Antti Kaihola (akaihola)]

Forgot to mention: newly created tabs always have the correct color theme.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

may you take an screnshot of the issue? Thanks.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Similar things happen here with gnome-terminal 2.29.1-0ubuntu3 when switching themes. Only the the terminals background color seems affected though. Switching from Human to DarkRoom gives a DarkRoom-brown background color #4C4039, switching back to Human makes it an unreadable (white text on) light-grey #E6DDD5. Apparently gnome-terminal applies the themes window color for the background despite being told not to, i.e. having "Use colors from system theme" unchecked.

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