Yes, the problem is persistent. What chipsets does everyone here have? Mine is an Intel X58 chipset (which can be found amongst other ways by doing a lspci)
I think I'll make up a temporary work-around script to fix this issue. It'll most likely be a dodgy hack. I'll post it here if and when I make the script up. I'm quite sure something is causing gnome-settings-daemon to not start up correctly. It looks like gnome-settings-daemon has many dependencies:- libappindicator1 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra0 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbusmenu-glib1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgnome-desktop-2-17 libgnomekbd4 libgtk2.0-0 libice6 libnotify1 libpango1.0-0 libpng12-0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libsm6 libstartup-notification0 libx11-6 libxext6 libxi6 libxklavier16 libxml2 zlib1g gconf2 libgnome2-common -- Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs