Nautilus does not respect GTK theme set in Appearance

[guitarMan666]

The fix is actually very simple. It involves removing a folder. The simplest way to accomplish this is to open a terminal and run the following:

rm -vr ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus && killall nautilus

This command removes the directory /home/yourname/.gconf/nautilus and the files in it giving you written confirmation, and kills the nautilus process IF the delete is successful.

You may find this solution more comfortable as a beginner:

rm -vr ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus && sudo reboot

Which reboots instead of merely killing the process. This may save any abnormalities that might occur from killing nautilus (like missing desktop icons).

EDIT: First command works flawlessly. No abnormal effects or anything.

[sidneylopsides]

awesome, thankyou! It worked

[thomas_toscani]

The fix is actually very simple. It involves removing a folder. The simplest way to accomplish this is to open a terminal and run the following:

rm -vr ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus && killall nautilus

This command removes the directory /home/yourname/.gconf/nautilus and the files in it giving you written confirmation, and kills the nautilus process IF the delete is successful.

You may find this solution more comfortable as a beginner:

rm -vr ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus && sudo reboot

Which reboots instead of merely killing the process. This may save any abnormalities that might occur from killing nautilus (like missing desktop icons).

EDIT: First command works flawlessly. No abnormal effects or anything.

Thank you! Worked for me as well!

[sidneylopsides]

Ok, maybe it didn't work... it keeps going back to the rubbish theme, and it makes noises when it does it! Clicking things makes a noise, it's gets very irritating.
It works if I do the above, but goes back when I restart.

[sidneylopsides]

*bump*

No one got any ideas?
This is starting to get annoying now, and I don't want to do an complete reinstall just for a theme problem.

[muschiosauro]

Check if you have a file named gnome-settings-daemon.desktop in your /home/username/.config/autostart folder. If you find it there, just delete it (or, if you don't feel like, just try moving it to another location) and reboot. That solved the problem with me.

[sidneylopsides]

Thanks for the reply, but I don't have that file.

[sidneylopsides]

Reinstalled Ubuntu, it was fine for less than a day, the theme has broken again.
This time the things suggested before don't work, I can't get the toolbars etc to change at all.

[chiriones]

I renamed ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus and closed all Nautili. When I reopened Nautilus, the GTk theme was back as usual.

[marbour]

Hi

I am experiencing the exact same problem with 10.04 fully updated.

Deleting the directory is still the solution for Nautilus reverting to square/ugly theme.

BUT BEWARE: it also deletes all shorcuts and custom config you may have made in Nautilus... Like list view instead of... etc.

Not that big a problem if you have all your shortcuts' users and passwords...

Regards

Marc