I had the same problem and Kristian's fix worked for me.
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Darklooks gtkrc is broken [hardy]
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Dycedarg, the file you have to modify is named on Nanley's original bug
report: /usr/share/themes/Darklooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
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Darklooks gtkrc is broken [hardy]
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Just for the record: the workaround Robin mentioned didn't work for me.
I'm on Virtualbox and my setup behaves just like Rocko's description.
The starting theme looks like Ambiance and after some seconds the screen
looks pretty much like Paolo's screenshot.
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