You're probably using nuvoClear at the moment; try switching to a different theme, edit, and switch back?

If this is the problem, then YOU, not the shell, must expand $DEFAULTMBTHEME...

Wouldn't that be Not sufficiently general, of course; it ought to match anything interpretable by GTK+, and I'm not sure what GTK+ uses to parse this, and specifically what whitespace and doublequoting is mandatory, but it should work.

Edit: Ha, beaten.

BTW, I'm now rockin' this on mine with nuvoClear; it's sweet for portrait, but I'm missing the menu button, too... Not that having a ninja menu bothers me, it's just odd that I don't have it on home, and do on app windows. Now that that's gone, all we need is the ability to extend the statusbar... why, oh why, is this not configurable?