gdm ignores xubuntu-gdm-theme gconf settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm on a new installation of xubuntu Natty. When I first rebooted after installing, the xubuntu-gdm-theme showed up correctly on the login screen. Since then, gdm has started ignoring those theme settings, leaving the login screen with a black background and what looks like default colors & icons on the panel bar.
I tried purging and reinstalling the following packages:
gdm
xubuntu-gdm-theme
xubuntu-artwork
xubuntu-
xubuntu-desktop
...but that didn't help.
I have verified that the xubuntu-gdm-theme settings are present in gdm's gconf database...
$ for i in /desktop/
/usr/share/
elementaryXubuntu
greybird
true
true
...yet they seem to be ignored.
For comparison, I'm attaching screen shots of my (broken) gdm screen and a correct one from a virtual machine. (Try to ignore the fact that they're different screen resolutions.)
Update: Installing gnome-settings- daemon got xubuntu-gdm-theme to work again. Removing (not purging) gnome-settings- daemon caused the xubuntu theme to disappear again. With this in mind, shouldn't gnome-settings- daemon be a proper dependency instead of merely a recommended package? Or, perhaps xubuntu-gdm-theme can be made to work without it by setting something up in a postinst script?