My issue wasn't fixed until I restarted gnome-settings-daemon. Here's what I did, it works 100% of the time, but its a total hack.
Go in synaptic, reinstall nautilus. I made a one liner shell script that runs when my computer starts: sleep 5; ps -aef | grep gnome-settings-daemon | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9; sleep 2; gnome-settings-daemon This completely 'fixed' the problem, but again, total hack and would like to know why gnome-settings-daemon is having issues in the first place. -Orbital -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500417 Title: nautilus doesn't honor gnome theme -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs