Further analysis reveals that gnome-settings-daemon is running but it seems it is unresponsive.
As a workaround I killed and started gome-settings-daemon manually to get the themes working properly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730983 Title: Clean gnome session loses default theme -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
