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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #649809
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 649809

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Rhubarb (cam-daw) wrote : Re: Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly

Same problem here.

Clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 (The full release version, with all updates applied as of 12 October 2010.

Installed nvidia drivers, after a reboot the ubuntu theme has gone and is replaced by the default gnome theme (which is quite ugly).

It is possible to get it working if you run this:
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killall gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon
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Then log out, and log back in again. Then the theme works nicely, until you reboot / log out again.

Note that sometimes I've noticed several gnome-settings-daemon processes running at 100% CPU usage - these can be killed with no effect to your present theme for the current session.

Also note that when I run gnome-settings-daemon (after running killall gnome-settings-daemon) this is returned to the console:
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rhubarb@rhubarb-SX58:~$ gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:4716): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:4716): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
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Which makes me think it's a problem to do with the gnome-settings-daemon ;)