I was experiencing different symptoms but the fix detailed here resolved my problem as well.
I selected Darklooks using gnome-appearance-properties and everything looked good until I'd reboot. When the GNOME came back up, the theme clearly wasn't Darklooks although the Appearance panel showed that it was still selected. Selecting a different theme and then reselecting Darklooks would cause the theme to be applied again. The status of this bug is VERY misleading. It's great that its fixed upstream and all, but IT'S STILL BROKEN IN HARDY. -- Darklooks gtkrc is broken [hardy] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs