Ugly theme after Nvidia driver install

[Jungleboss]

I've tried the 'current' proprietary Nvidia drivers in the repository and also the newest from Nvidias home page. Both of them gives me, regardless of what theme I choose, ugly windows. The only things that are shown correct according to the theme is the minimise, maximise, close buttons (correct colour and form). Everything else is grey and ugly. I have successfully activated 'Normal' visual effects, so composite/opengl seems to work.

The only window that is according to the theme is System/Preferences/Appearance!?

Any ideas?

[gg234]

Try this http://www.mydailytechtips.com/2010/10/how-to-fix-plymouth-ugly-resolution-for.html

[xircon]

Try this http://www.mydailytechtips.com/2010/10/how-to-fix-plymouth-ugly-resolution-for.html

That is for Plymouth! Select appearance from the menu and select a new theme.

[ankspo71]

Hi,
I think it could be gnome-settings-daemon crashing. Does the theme get reapplied if you press Alt+F2 then type in: gnome-settings-daemon ?

If running gnome-settings-daemon does help, then...
Try doing what this post says to do then log out then log back in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885038

If that doesn't help, see the post made by "serfcx" here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-688522.html

If neither of them help, then try what I said in this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9958138&postcount=3

Hope this helps.

[Jungleboss]

That is for Plymouth! Select appearance from the menu and select a new theme.

Only the minimise/maximise/close buttons are changed when selecting a new theme. Nothing else.

[Jungleboss]

Hi,
I think it could be gnome-settings-daemon crashing. Does the theme get reapplied if you press Alt+F2 then type in: gnome-settings-daemon ?

If running gnome-settings-daemon does help, then...
Try doing what this post says to do then log out then log back in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885038

If that doesn't help, see the post made by "serfcx" here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-688522.html

If neither of them help, then try what I said in this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9958138&postcount=3

Hope this helps.

Killing gnome-settings-daemon and running it again works!

But running the script:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 2 && gnome-settings-daemon ;

(I've tried sleep 10 aswell)

At startup doesn't work. Gnome-settings-daemon seems to be started every time (even without the script). It never crashes (as far as I can see). But to get correct theme I have to kill it and restart it manually.

I'm booting from a fast SSD, if that can be the cause. That the processes aren't starting in the correct order because of the high performance disk.

[xircon]

#!/bin/sh
killall gnome-settings-daemon
sleep 2 && gnome-settings-daemon ;

[Jungleboss]

#!/bin/sh
killall gnome-settings-daemon
sleep 2 && gnome-settings-daemon ;


Actually I made this script and it seems to work :)
Thanks anyway.


#!/bin/sh
sleep 3
killall -9 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon


Btw, is:
sleep 2 && gnome-settings-daemon ;

identical with:
sleep 2
gnome-settings-daemon

?

And what does the ending ';' mean?

[Jungleboss]

To get correct theme in Nautilus I had to do the following:

http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showpos...80&postcount=4

[ankspo71]

Hi Jungleboss

"&" = means run this following command at the same time.

"&&" = means run this following command next, but only after the previous command is successfully completed.

If you only make a list of applications in a script and not use "&" or "&&" it will only launch one application at a time. Each command (application) might need to exit first before the next one is launched.


#!/bin/sh

gbrainy
sol
gnomine


You are probably better off with something like this (in most cases):



#!/bin/sh

gbrainy &
sol &
gnomine &


";" = I don't know what that is used for to be honest. I have seen other people using that at the end of scripts (especially in start up scripts) so I use it since it has always worked in my commands. It might just mean 'the end of this string of commands'.

Hope this helps.

[Spade12]

hey guys, im dealing with this same issue, running the aforementioned script :


#!/bin/sh sleep 3 killall -9 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon

works for everything but nautilus

will there be a patch for this? should i try updating my nvidia driver to a newer release?

[ankspo71]

Hi Spade12

Here is a link talking about how to get nautilus re-themed:
http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9307380&postcount=4

Also, here is a similar thread to keep an eye on:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594010

[Spice Weasel]

A permanent fix for this is installing LXAppearance and making sure it saves to your ~/.gtkrc2.0.