I probably updated my Ubuntu 12.04 install too enthusiastically, and suddenly I have a lot of horrible theming. In particular, menu bars are now a horrible grey colour, and my hand cursor is black with a white outline. Thunderbird has been particularly badly affected: there the menu bar has a dark grey background and black for the text colour. My gnome-relevant set up is `/usr/share/xsessions/xmonad.desktop` [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=XMonad Comment=Lightweight tiling window manager Exec=gnome-session --session=xmonad Icon=xmonad.png Type=XSession `/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/xmonad.session` [GNOME Session] Name=Xmonad session RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon;gnome-panel; RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications; DefaultProvider-windowmanager=xmonad DefaultProvider-notifications=notification-daemon Until a few days ago, this was giving me a very pleasant xmonad experience with a little gnome seasoning. But, it also seems as if I can't adjust my gnome settings. There's an Applications / System Tools / System Settings menu entry that hangs off the gnome-panel, and this allows the selection of themes from the Display option, but this doesn't seem to have any effect on what I see. I realise that this is more a Gnome question than an xmonad one, but my situation is more likely to be one that xmonad users understand and/or have encountered. I'd like to keep the gnome "seasoning" around if possible, but the way it looks at the moment is sooo ugly. Any advice gratefully received, Michael