Problems with GTK2 themes (such as human-theme) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS MATE + poll

[wolfman]

@Norbert_X

Dear @wolfman!

I did this experiments on clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS MATE beta2 (it has these packages preinstalled).
So it is the most reproducible way without side-effects.
But really problem exists since Ubuntu 17.10. I write this post from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and does not have problems with Human-themes.

And other launchpad user confirmed such behavior.

Hi Norbert,

you may have a broken system file or two somewhere?, try the following terminal command (Ctrl + Alt + t) to see if it fixes things for you:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

You can also try changing your software sources download location and updating again!:

Ubuntu Mate Update Guide

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