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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.

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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 &)
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  • Thanks for the help, the command works. At least I don't have to logout. But, there is a way to fix the problem permanently? – Removed Oct 23 '11 at 04:30
  • @Dennis Probably the only permanent fix will be when the bug itself has been fixed. Everything else would just be a workaround. – Knowledge Cube Oct 23 '11 at 07:12
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    @WarriorIng64 Ok so, I think I will wait for the update. – Removed Oct 23 '11 at 18:50
  • Didn't happen to me until I updated to the 3.0 Kernel, and had to restart. Maybe that command can be run as a startup script? – SeanJA Nov 22 '11 at 20:41
  • Doesn't make any difference run the command in the startup, the bug is caused when an random application is closed. Btw, until now the bug isn't fixed yet... – Removed Nov 23 '11 at 02:30
  • Is this answer still up to date? – RolandiXor Feb 17 '12 at 14:35
  • @RolandTaylor I'm not experiencing the bug anymore, because I stopped using the software that triggered it, but **if** the bug affects a user, the answer should still fix it. Note, the loss of theme only affects Nautilus (including the desktop), so it's not to be confused with the g-s-d crash that transforms our system theme into Windows 95. ;-) – htorque Feb 17 '12 at 18:49
  • @RolandTaylor Since two days this bug annoys me on Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit. The workaround works, though. – Jakob Mar 04 '12 at 14:23
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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

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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.)

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  • It's a different bug, g-s-d doesn't seem to crash in that case (at least nothing in /var/crash suggests it). – htorque Oct 22 '11 at 21:28