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I logged in to ubuntu as I always do and suddenly the theme changed from what I have chosen to the default one and when I try to bring it back, it's working, but not the way it's supposed to:

ubuntu theme problem

As you can see the Window Border of the normal sized window is what I want it to be but the fullscreen one is not(it's ubuntu's default!) and also it is the same about icons.
I hope there is someone who knows what my problem is!

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  • indicator applet keeps crashing when I log in
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2hamed
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This is a known bug from 9.04 onwards but appears worse in 11.04.On webupd8.org a workaround fix was posted in the last 2 months. After installing 11.04 i have just had the same problem so I went and looked for the article. This describes a fix. I have used it on another machine and can confirm it works.

To summarize, the solution is to edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop as root, and replace this line:

Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon

With this line:

Exec=bash -c "sleep 5; /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon"
Eliah Kagan
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Alex
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Sounds like a hosed gconf to me. I had this issue once after removing some application menu items. Probably a weird parsing error that hasn't been pinned down yet. Just my 2 cents.

My solution was to start over...not a good solution.

RobotHumans
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Try running the command unity it worked for me.

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