I'm at a loss to say what program I have installed that may have started
this behavior but for some reason, on occasion, the look of my desktop
changes of it's own accord when I click on the panel.


First I'm seeing this:



which after an innocent click, suddenly becomes this:



Clicking on System>Preferences>Appearance changes it back without making
a choice, in fact even before the window opens to make a choice.


What could be going on?

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On 15/11/11 15:38, CJ Tres wrote:

I'm at a loss to say what program I have installed that may have started
this behavior but for some reason, on occasion, the look of my desktop
changes of it's own accord when I click on the panel.

First I'm seeing this:



which after an innocent click, suddenly becomes this:



Clicking on System>Preferences>Appearance changes it back without making
a choice, in fact even before the window opens to make a choice.

What could be going on?



That's almost certainly gnome-settings-daemon crashing for some reason.

When/if that happens you can restart it manually from a terminal or
ALT+F2. Going to the appearance dialog will probably restart it too,
hence it 'fixing' without you doing anything in that dialog.


Cheers,
Al.

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On 11/15/2011 09:52 AM, Alan Pope wrote:



That's almost certainly gnome-settings-daemon crashing for some reason.

When/if that happens you can restart it manually from a terminal or
ALT+F2. Going to the appearance dialog will probably restart it too,
hence it 'fixing' without you doing anything in that dialog.

Cheers,
Al.



Restarting from a terminal worked alright.
Nothing about it in the daemon log.

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hi,
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:55:54 -0600
CJ Tres <ctres@grics.net> wrote:
> Restarting from a terminal worked alright.
> Nothing about it in the daemon log.
>
daemons running in an X user session log to ~/.xsession-errors ...
have a look for errors there ...
only system wide running daemons log to syslog ...

ciao
oli
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On 11/16/2011 05:06 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:

hi,
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:55:54 -0600
CJ Tres<ctres@grics.net> wrote:

Restarting from a terminal worked alright.
Nothing about it in the daemon log.


daemons running in an X user session log to ~/.xsession-errors ...
have a look for errors there ...
only system wide running daemons log to syslog ...

ciao
oli



Thanks... I learn something new every day.
Scanning that log I see a number of possible problems..
New post...

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