[Bug 574296] Re: Gnome theme not applied on session start

EDIT to comment #23: Please excuse my newbieness with Linux systems but the shell script that I was intending had to be (and also if someone didn't know its executable bit must also be enabled by using chmod):

[Bug 574296] Re: Gnome theme not applied on session start

I think the problem is two instances of 'gnome-settings-daemon' being run. Normally, they had to be run one after another. The following fixed the problem for me: Step 1: Create a script (I called it gnome-settings-daemon-fix.sh) under /etc/xdg/autostart with the following: #!/bin/bash #