First off, I am new to the community, so hi everyone. I have been using LMDE for the last 6 months or so, and am happy with it although some instabilities and glitches are annoying. I am exactly in this situation, this is why I post. I have the following problem:
After installing update pack 3 (following the guide in the blog, which worked fine) the toolbars and the whole gui aquired a grey somewhat strange and broken looking appearance. Leftovers from the originam theme still leak through at some points, like the 'menu' button or the window titlebars are still looking how they should, but other things just turned weird. When I try to open "Appeareance" from the mint-menu, I get the following error message
Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with DBus, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.
The appearance gui menu then starts, but changes in the theme cause only partially changes to the system, and changes to the fonts change nothing at all.
starting the gnome-settings-daemon from the terminal (with sudo, don't know if this is appropriate) does change something, like a lot of the icons get back to how they used to look like, but other strange color or toolbar errors stay. Terminal standard out reads:
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** (gnome-settings-daemon:3318): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:3318): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
What else should I include? Oh yes, of course, LMDE 64bit. I would be happy if anyone could give me a hint about what is actually going on here or help me out in any way. The problem seems very confusing and although I can work on the computer, It really looks and feels ugly as hell.
Thanks, Georg
edit:
I might add, that when starting the keyboard layout manager, I get the same error. Also, the ctrl+alt+backspace sequence to kill the x-server does not work
another edit:
Also , the process "gnome-appearanc" is defunct and not killable