Thanks for confirming that it's not a driver problem -- I took the liberty to mark the nvidia-bug as invalid.
I also found a workaround: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615358 With that workaround, the GDM doesn't get themed, but the desktop shows correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 Title: Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs