Nautilus losing theme

Question

I'm new to Ubuntu, I install it yesterday and I'm loving the system.

But there is a problem with Nautilus and I have no idea on how to fix this. Nautilus randomly loses its Ambiance theme, becoming all gray with a strange look. The icons also disappear too.

Doing a logoff or rebooting the system fixes the problem, but it happens again after a while. It seems completely random and it's quite annoying.

The Ubuntu version is 11.10 64 bit.

This is not Desktop forgets theme? as it only affects Nautilus.

htorque · Answer 1 · 2011-10-22T17:50:28.120

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It's an annoying bug, reported here (though I'm not 100% sure that this isn't a duplicate of the bug I was looking for).

As a workaround you can run this from a terminal:

killall nautilus ; (nautilus &)

edited Oct 22 '11 at 17:50

answered Oct 22 '11 at 17:43

htorque

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 10 '13 at 07:25

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If you use nautilus -q command in terminal. it will solve. you just have to do it every time it happens. And open any folder after that command

edited May 10 '13 at 07:25

BuZZ-dEE

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answered May 10 '13 at 06:23

user2325352

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '11 at 19:20

With older versions of Ubuntu, this was typically caused by a crash of gnome-settings-daemon. To fix it, I could press Alt+F2, gnome-settings-daemon, Enter.

I'd like to know if this workaround still works in Ubuntu 11.10. (So far I haven't seen this happen to me.)

Nautilus losing theme

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