How to change desktop theme

[tlhodgson]

Hi all,

I am running 11.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1500 series laptop. I updated my computer yesterday, and now my desktop theme is different. In 10.04, changing the theme was easy, just go to appearance settings and choose. For some reason, when I go to appearance and select a theme now, the only options I get are customize and install, neither of which do anything to help me change my theme. The install button takes me to my home directory...presumably to pick a theme file. But I can't find any themes in my home directory.

Does anyone know what is going on? How do I change the theme now?

Thanks for any help from the community.

Terry

[Alwimo]

It should be identical to what it was in the past. Something has gone wrong.

As you have the customise button, you could select the individual elements through that.

[Frogs Hair]

The installation tab takes you to the home directory because if had downloaded a theme for installation and it would have been saved there in a a file of your choice . You could first try restarting the computer and if that doesn't work try the command below followed by restarting the computer
killall gnome-settings-daemon

[tlhodgson]

Thanks guys. Ive been away from the computer for about a week now. I fired it up and it was back to normal. I was also able to download a theme from the gnome page. I have no idea what the issue was, but it seems to be working now.

I appreciate your help on this matter.