Wow... that's strange!! Theme just switched

[dougal]

I wonder if anyone else has their theme suddenly switch?
Mine has suddenly switched away from my own Glassy one to what looks like one of the older Ultimate Edition ones with the buttons on the left and so on. I am just about to reboot after choosing my own theme, which has not changed anything yet.
Looking at the window managers and theme managers in the Compiz panel icon shows nothing has changed.

Mmm???

[dougal]

Well rebooted and theme is back to normal.

Any ideas guys?

[pclinuxguru]

seen this before, quick logout and log back in fixes it.

[Meister]

Sounds like a bug with gnome-settings-deamon , as guru said a quit log out and in fixes

[dougal]

Mmm... interesting but, it stinks.

Only kidding. If that's all it is and it certainly doesn't happen frequently then, I can live with it.

I wonder if the rock solid expectations of version 3.0 will kick all minor things like this finally into oblivion?

Thanks guys.

[pclinuxguru]

Mmm... interesting but, it stinks.

Only kidding. If that's all it is and it certainly doesn't happen frequently then, I can live with it.

I wonder if the rock solid expectations of version 3.0 will kick all minor things like this finally into oblivion?

Thanks guys.

We can make it astronomically rare yes.

Only happened to me once in a year with pc-trends os.

If Anyone can make it go away for good, it is thee in Ultimate Edition 3.0.

[dougal]

Maybe it is the same phenomenon that sometimes (only occasionally) makes my open windows disappear under the top panel.
The only way I can then access the buttons is to hide the panel.
Opening and closing the window does not reinstate the window to a position below the panel. Only a reboot sees things returning to normal.
Something in the window manager perhaps.
Sad to say but, this never happens in that other OS (ouch, that was sore).

You guys do a fantastic job whatever and I won't abandon Ultimate Edition for anything else.

[dougal]

Just as a heads up... I test OSes (or at least that other one) for our own little department in the University where I work. We have to know what little pitfalls it may have waiting for the unwary as we have a lot of students using it along with attaching scientific instruments and data collection stuff of all sorts.
The most annoying thing in the past has been having the same operating system on two supposedly identical PCs and connection through the serial port (bear with me...) then one PC will talk with externally connected equipment but, the other won't.
The next most annoying thing is trying to get across to people that data collection is all about real time when working at high speed collection rates and that working in any sort of system that does not give priority to the ports is a waste of time.
The amount of occasions I have seen Win XP for example (which is still the most common system in our research labs) interfere with data collection but, the researchers won't listen and move to something else, is staggering.
Still they are happy with the results.

Sorry I am rabbiting on here... I'll swap to the chit-chat section of the forum.

[Donut123]

Yes I have had this happen to me a few times. At first I didnt reboot, I tried o fix it.
It usually became worse. I messed everything up.I had ti reinstall the entire OS.
Now I reboot , and some things happen you cant explain what happened.

[dougal]

As a short term work around I simply click on the Compiz Settings Manager icon and click the 'Reload Window Manager'.
This sets my window theme back to my preferred options.
To me this would suggest that something is checking the system now and then for some reason and resetting the window manager to the original install settings.
Although, I quite like the original I can't always get the colours I need to work in for certain environments as some options can be difficult for me to read with the font and background colours set as they are.

So I don't know if this helps but, it is something to do with the default install setting perhaps...

I'll post this as a bug.