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combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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GNOME theme breaks

This bug is not reproducible that easily but I wonder if anyone having the same issue. Sometimes, when I start an application regardless of the uptime, gnome-settings-daemon breaks and pops up the default gnome theme and appearance settings. I get this in xsession-errors:

The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 3996 error_code 8 request_code 15 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I see that other distributions are hit by this also (debian, ubuntu, fedora) but there is no solution on any of the bug reports. I had this problem a long time ago, then during gnome 2.26/2.28 i haven't had these troubles, 2.30 - bug is back again. Any solutions, recommendations, anything ?

o1911

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From: Hobart, Australia

Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 106

Re: GNOME theme breaks

I've seen this before too (happened today actually).  Hard to reproduce, but when I tried to change the theme "back", gdm crashed.

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superchango

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From: Tenochtitlan

Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 133

Re: GNOME theme breaks

Yea, same problem. Only restart session help.

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Andy Mack

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 133

Re: GNOME theme breaks

I get that too

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: GNOME theme breaks

So I'm not alone This is an upstream bug guaranteed, but I haven't found any solutions If someone find anything - please let us know.