I have exactly the same problem on Edgy. I went from Dapper to Edgy. The troubles came after a dist-upgrade. Before that I had Edgy runing ok.
When I reboot or restart X server, the problem comes back. When I load gnome-settings-daemon manually then it's allright even if i change session (without restarting X). -- [Edgy] gnome-settings-daemon acting up https://launchpad.net/bugs/59217 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs