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http://askubuntu.com – After I rebooted 15 min ago, I noticed that Unity clock and menu text changed to dark for apparently no reason, so I rebooted again in a hope to remedy. Unfortunately still same: I launched Appearance dialog, and tried to change themes, then revert to my favourite and very common theme Dust Sand, but for some reason I still get this dark text. I remember Update manager did some updates today and I checked the log. I think I found the problem - among updated packages there was also update for "Light Themes (Ambiance and Radiance)" with this change log: light-themes (0.1.8.13.1) natty-pr (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/21/2012 – Made popular on 01/21/2012

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