My Ubuntu has gone ugly

[Jọhn]

Hi all

I've been messing around with Mate and Xubuntu lately, when I came back to Unity I discovered that most of my windows are borked. The themes aren't being applied and everything looks pretty square and bland.

The only way I can get them working is to launch apps like this:

env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/bin/firefox

When I create a new user that seems to work, but I'm curious if I can fix this relatively easily without having to remove all my config files.

I already tried removing .config and .compiz-1 from my home directory but the problem still remains.

Anyone else seen this? I'm on 12.04LTS 64bit.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Frogs Hair]

See what file manager is starting in Unity from help > about and if it is nautilus try the following command.

nautilus -q

between your three desktops I think you have three file manages and Nautilus is used to draw the desktop in Ubuntu.

[Jọhn]

It is Nautilus but that didn't fix the issue, thanks for replying. Unless I manually specify the GTK2 stuff, everything but the title bar on my windows is beige and boxy.