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My system is using the Ambiance theme in Ubuntu Natty. Everything works correctly except for Nautilus, which appears to have been deprived from its theme. Grey nautilus doesn't look healthy

Can anyone help me restore it to the default Ambiance theme? (I've tried setting other themes but Nautilus is still grey)

If I open Nautilus with 'sudo' from the terminal, this bug isn't present and the theme is shown correctly.

I thought the Desktop forgets theme? answer would solve my problem, but after restarting, the theme-less Nautilus is back.

Something I noticed is that this problem is present in Nautilus and with Nautilus only. As I said, if I run Nautilus as root the problem isn't present, only when running Nautilus as a normal user

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  • I think you probably messed the own of some configurations files. I will search a solution. – desgua May 01 '11 at 20:54
  • Maybe this can help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/21305/desktop-forgets-theme , http://askubuntu.com/questions/11406/gnome-settings-daemon-doesnt-apply-themes-unless-i-kill-it-and-start-it-manuall – desgua May 01 '11 at 21:06
  • I bet after running it with sudo that some of the config files now belong to root and your user account can't access them. – Jorge Castro May 02 '11 at 19:55
  • Is there any way to reset this Nautilus configuration? I don't mind using the default theme... – bbonamin May 02 '11 at 19:57

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Well, after searching around. Adding a delay to gnome-settings-daemon when logging in corrected the problem

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Can you change your icons theme?

Instructions:

1) Hit Alt+F2 and paste gnome-appearance-properties

2) Go to "Theme" and click "Customize".

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3) Go to "Icons" and choose one.

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change the theme as root and put the themes you want in root.. this works for me..

in otherwords become root and bring up your customization and select your theme or just download ubuntu tweak and have it fix the root theme bug

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There's definitely some kind of configuration issue going on. Currently it seems like root and your login have different settings for themes.

Try running gksu gnome-appearance-properties

If you already see your default theme in there, and it isn't selected, all you need to do is select it.

if you don't see your theme in there, it will explain why root defaults to another theme. Then you should check if your default theme is install at /usr/share/themes/ or simply install them again to that location.

if it's there and it's already selected, or selecting it doesn't make a difference, then still check your /usr/share/themes/ folder to see if the files are missing or broken or have wrong permissions.... hope this helps.

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I found great solution here:

rm -vr ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus && killall nautilus
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yeah that fixed it for me

mv ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus.old && killall nautilus

..if it helps the last time I remember it was ok was the day before I 'discovered' dconf, so assume I broke it with that - or it was a coincidence.

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