I think I'm experiencing this bug too. In the past few weeks, I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 x64 desktop on brand new self-built machines. One of the first things I did to each was to activate the Nvidia driver, once I rebooted, themes no longer seem to be applied, the UI looked like 9.04.
Details: http://askubuntu.com/questions/11406/gnome-settings-daemon-doesnt-apply-themes-unless-i-kill-it-and-start-it-manuall http://askubuntu.com/questions/14115/xsession-errors-is-2-7gb-big-and-growing-on-fresh-install-caused-by-gnome Issue: - (everytime) when I log in, the UI appears to have no theme, and looks old school like 9.04 - if I kill gnome-settings-daemon, and then invoke it manually from the command line, the themes then get applied, except in the file viewer (nautilus) it seems -- Gnome theme not applied on session start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574296 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs