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My PC has recently received a fresh Ubuntu 13.04 install. There is nothing else on the PC apart from a very basic setup of 13.04.



After rebooting, I noticed so many problems with the way Ubuntu looked:




  • Mouse pointer very large, blurry

  • Applications don't have a global menu bar

  • Font is all weird... is it open sans instead of Ubuntu?

  • Right click context menu has little coloured icons in it

  • Most applications look like Windows 95



I've tried:




  • unity-revamp

  • unity --reset

  • changing the theme from Ambiance and back again

  • creating new user account (looks ok in other account, but switching back is the same)

  • removing custom themes directories (there were none at ~/.theme, ~/themes)

  • Installing proprietary drivers (this made everything much faster and smoother, but didn't fix the weird theme)



Here's some screenshots of what things look like now:



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Can someone help my Ubuntu get back to its beautiful self?


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A colleague fixed this for me:



We basically went through all hidden directories within the home directory and moved them to a backup folder...



It was after removing ~/.gconf I noticed that everything, slowly, started fixing itself.



Once booted, I first noticed the font was back to the normal Ubuntu font, and then in front of my very eyes the global menu bar popped up to the top-bar, and then the colours popped magically back to life.



The last thing to fix itself, was the mouse pointer, which reduced in size as I was typing this answer.



As much as this fixed my problem, I really don't have a clue why this occurred, or what file within gconf was the culprit...


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