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fruit_alchemist
Asked: 2016-11-08 03:41:05 +0800 CST

Nautilus (?) strange look

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I am new to Ubuntu.

My problem is the strange appearance of Nautilus (or Unity?)

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Maybe I have messed up with the tweak tool, so I have deleted the tweak tool and its preferences.

Also tried to reset nautilus and unity to default settings. Didn't help.

How can I repair?

nautilus

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is an issue caused by incompatibility of the default Ambiance theme with the Nautilus version.

    GNOME developers love to break this and that between GTK releases. Since Ubuntu 16.04 is shipped with mostly GTK 3.18 components including nautilus, updating the nautilus and GTK with break the compatibility of those applications with default Ambiance theme.

    You need to downgrade to default nautilus and GTK. I think you've added gnome3-staging PPA.

    So, remove it with this command

    sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

    If you prefer to stay with GTK 3.20 in 16.04, You have to find themes that work well with GTK-3.20.

    The list of themes that supports GNOME 3.20 is few. Here is a list

    If you want to use default Ambiance theme:

    If you really want to use the Ambiance and Radiance theme, you can download the light-themes package from Yakkety release and install it in 16.04. It works fine in my test.

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  2. To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window. When it opens, run the below command to reset Unity and Compiz settings:

    dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

    After that, run the below command to restart Unity:

    setsid unity
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