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I had the awesome Adapta theme installed on my system. Then I ran this script to install more themes. I'm not sure what change it did, but since then Adapta theme is giving Nautilus sidebar and context menu a look like this:
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Whereas it should have normal spacing like this:
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And here is the context menu:
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I've tried install Adapta from latest master from source, from a point in past I've known it to work but it just doesn't work. I'm sure its not a bug with Adapta's code as a few other themes too have started showing this behavior.

What has gone with wrong with my system and how can I do to fix this and get themes to work correctly on my system?

System information: GNOME 3.18 on Ubuntu 16.04

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  • You should file a bug report with the maintainer of the theme. I highly advise you not run scripts to install themes as themes are kept in ~/.themes and all you need to do is download the archive and extract it to ~/.themes. I looked at the script and although it is well written it does a lot more then downloading and extracting themes.
    – Panther
    Oct 16, 2017 at 15:03

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According to the description of the script you linked, it installs themes into ~/.themes directory. So removing this directory should undo the aforementioned script's action.

After removing the ~/.themes directory, purge Adapta theme from your system. Then reinstall it from their PPA by running 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tista/adapta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install adapta-gtk-theme
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    Good suggestion, however, if you look at the script it does a lot more than placing themes in ~/.themes. Purging and reinstalling a package will affect system files, outside $HOME, but will NOT AFFECT settings in the users ~/.themes so in this case I would not expect reinstalling to help, but it may.
    – Panther
    Oct 16, 2017 at 15:05
  • Removing ~/.themes directory and re-installing the theme fixed it. Thank you.
    – Harshil Sharma
    Oct 16, 2017 at 15:24

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