Also affected with a Core i7, an SSD and an Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 (proprietary driver). The workaround in comment #68 (sleep) fixes it for me too. Here's two lines from .xsession-errors when it doesn't work (with the workaround, these lines do not appear):
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1641): WARNING **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1641): WARNING **: Unable to start xsettings manager: Could not initialize xsettings manager. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 Title: Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp