Gnome panels keep resetting themselves

[ShadowPuppet]

Even though the theme is still set to Ambiance, every time I login both the bottom and top panels, as well as the "skins" for all my programs, revert to an ugly pain gray Windows 95 look. How I I fix this? I am running Ubuntu 10.10 by the way.

[ShadowPuppet]

Bumping this up- still having issue.

Here's a screenshot (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/948/screenshotfd.png)

I'm trying to just run on the default Ambiance theme but the "skins" (i.e NOT the borders) in every application are ugly-as-sin Windows 95 mode.

You may notice that I am using gnome-panel, but this problem existed/persisted in regular gnome as well.


Doing a gconf-editor and /apps/metacity/general, the theme says Ambiance, but I note that "The theme determines the appearance of window borders, titlebar, and so forth." Is there somewhere else I need to look?

[BigSilly]

Bumping this as I'm suddenly getting this problem too. If I log out and back in again it's usually OK, but I can't figure out why my theme would change it's settings in this way. :confused: As per the OP, my appearance settings show I'm using Ambiance, but the theme itself looks like the default Gnome theme.

Anyone else with this issue?

[Frogs Hair]

See this thread this is affecting other users . http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1575703

[BigSilly]

Many thanks for that. Looks like exactly the same issue everyone else is having. As reported, when I click Appearance settings the theme begins to change to my choice, but until then I have the default Gnome theme. Hope they fix it soon. Bet it's something daft. :D