themes wonky - looks bad

Hi Robert :) Now that's weird. Can you try if unity --reset fixes the issue? (Though its highly unlikely that it is to blame). Also, do recent updates fix the issue?

Does not help.

The existing unity process segfaults:
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:07 glib.glib-gobject <unknown>:0 instance with
invalid (NULL) class pointer
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The new one shows this:
$ unity --reset
WARNING: Unity currently default profile, so switching to metacity
while resetting the values
monitus regiminis fenestrae: "" found in configuration database is not
a valid value for keybinding "cycle_group"
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.01.upgrade
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.02.upgrade
Initializing core options...done
Initializing bailer options...done
Initializing detection options...done
Initializing composite options...done
Initializing opengl options...done
Initializing decor options...done
Initializing mousepoll options...done
Initializing vpswitch options...done
Initializing animation options...done
Initializing snap options...done
compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture
Initializing expo options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing place options...done
Initializing grid options...done
Initializing gnomecompat options...done
Initializing wall options...done
Initializing ezoom options...done
Initializing workarounds options...done
Initializing resize options...done
Initializing fade options...done
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'unitymtgrabhandles'
Initializing scale options...done
Initializing session options...done

Screen geometry changed:
   0x0x1440x900

unity-panel-service: no process found
Initializing unityshell options...done
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method InfoRequest proxy
/com/canonical/unity/lens/applications does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method SetViewType proxy
/com/canonical/unity/lens/applications does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method InfoRequest proxy /com/canonical/unity/lens/files
does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method SetViewType proxy /com/canonical/unity/lens/files
does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method InfoRequest proxy
/com/canonical/unity/lens/commands does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method SetViewType proxy
/com/canonical/unity/lens/commands does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method InfoRequest proxy /com/canonical/unity/lens/music
does not exist
WARN 2012-01-24 15:32:22 unity.glib.dbusproxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:257
Cannot call method SetViewType proxy /com/canonical/unity/lens/music
does not exist
Initializing addhelper options...done
Initializing animationaddon options...done
Initializing annotate options...done
Initializing bench options...done
Initializing blur options...done
Initializing clone options...done
Init...

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

RAOF and I talked on IRC:
16:59 < lifeless> RAOF: ohhai, are you a good person to talk to about unity theme bugs ?
16:59 < lifeless> RAOF: specifically bug 920746
16:59 < ubot2`> Launchpad bug 920746 in unity "themes wonky - looks bad" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/920746
17:00 < RAOF> lifeless: No, not really. Urgh, sympathies. That looks really annoying.
17:01 < RAOF> Something would appear to have gone weird in your gnome-settings-daemon, though.
17:03 < RAOF> lifeless: Could you install dconf-tools and check out the org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins tree? Particularly xsettings?
17:04 < RAOF> (Oh, with dconf-editor)
17:05 < lifeless> RAOF: what things from there do you want to know ?
17:05 < RAOF> lifeless: If I disable the xsettings plugin I get something that looks a lot like what you've got. Is the xsettings plugin enabled?
17:06 < lifeless> inactive, grayscale, nothing disabled, nothing enabled, medium hinting, priority 2, rgb
17:06 < RAOF> Tick the button to activate it.
17:06 < lifeless> theme works
17:07 -!- ejat [~fenris@ubuntu/member/fenris-] has joined #ubuntu-desktop
17:07 < lifeless> but I cannot move windows
17:07 < RAOF> Right.
17:07 < RAOF> Wait for compiz to finish its screaming hissy fit.
17:07 < lifeless> wow thats a long hissy fit

So my questions are: why was that disabled? Are there other plugins that may need to be enabled? Why didn't unity --reset fix this?

17:08 < RAOF> It's finished restarting after its crash?
17:08 < lifeless> I presume so
17:08 < lifeless> I can alt-tab now
17:09 < lifeless> sloppy-focus isn't anymore, but at least it looks nice ;)
17:09 < RAOF> :)
17:09 < lifeless> what other plugins should be on by default?
17:10 < RAOF> Everything.
17:10 < lifeless> hah
17:10 < lifeless> very very very much not the case
17:10 < RAOF> Are there any which are disabled?
17:11 < RAOF> Oh. gconf is the only one of mine which is disabled.
17:11 < RAOF> And that's just a migrate-from-gconf thing, so it probably turns itself off.
17:11 < lifeless> background, clipboard, font, gconf, housekeeping, keybindings, keyboard, media-keys, mouse, print-notifications, smartcard, sound, wacom, xrandr
17:12 < lifeless> (and xsettings, but its on now)
17:12 < RAOF> Ah.
17:12 < RAOF> So, your system is not so much of the working then.
17:12 < lifeless> should I turn them all (but gconf) on ?
17:12 < RAOF> Yes.

We then had a little sidetrack to reenable my trackpad after it went awol, ending with
17:23 < RAOF> xinput set-int-prop 10 274 8 0
17:23 < lifeless> ahha
17:23 < lifeless> thanks

and now from my user perspective, I'm happy, system no longer feels horrible... still want to understand how it got like this

This one's quite important as turns out a lot of people are facing a similar ugliness..

thanks for your bug report. Is that still an issue in Ubuntu 12.04? Can you please test that and let us know?

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