Gnome reverting settings randomly.

I having this weird problem. It seems that Gnome reverts to standard settings randomly. It does this randomly when I login, touch a program, etc. Sometimes it can go for hours w/o switching settings. I think its a problem with the gnome-settings-daemon crashing or not starting up.

Same problem here. gnome-settings-daemon does not start up, so I have to manually launch it every time this happens (by right-mouse -> change desktop background).
edit: my gnome starts first with openbox, then switches to compiz... Sometimes it pops an error saying things like some stuff is occupied by another process so gnome-settings-daemon can't (sorry didn't really pay attention to whats in there.. ) Not sure if this is related though
Last edited by N-Acc (2009-02-19 06:15:57)

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