Questions tagged [theme]
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Bash command to detect if system is using dark theme or lgiht?
There's a way in browsers to query if the OS prefers dark theme or light https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme so that a website developer could use that query'...
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How to change the mouse cursor in Bodhi Linux
In Bodhi Linux, there is a poor choice of mouse cursor - only from the MOKSHA desktop theme, is it possible to change the theme of the mouse cursor?
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Won't Boot After Removing Sound-theme-freedesktop freedesktop.org from Linux mint 20.3
I removed sound-theme-freedesktop from linux mint 20.3 software manager because I thought it was unnecessary sounds that I don't need or use. After doing so, I rebooted and the system just hangs on ...
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Prevent LibreOffice from using system theme
I recently started using Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I understand that LibreOffice automatically uses the system colour theme---my preferred system theme is dark so LibreOffice uses it as well. However, ...
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How to change Qt/Gtk theme using CLI
I can change the theme using lxappearance and everything works. This includes pcmanfm, gnome-disks, firefox, and qalculate-qt themes being changed. Using gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ...
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Cannot open any folder or application due to an error in Gtk after changing icons
After changing themes on Linux Mint Cinnamon, application icons disappear and when I click them nothing happens. Some applications open when I click them, like Opera and some games I installed using ...
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How do I install Manajro KDE Theme, Manjaro GNOME Theme and Manjaro's icon pack in Arch Linux KDE?
How do I install Manajro KDE Theme, Manjaro GNOME Theme and Manjaro's icon pack in Arch Linux KDE? Because I really like their themes and icons and I dont want to distrohop just for that! Please help.
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How do I get zsh-navigation-tools to show in the default shell colors instead of using its own theme?
I have a terminal with a white background:
I enabled the zsh-navigation-tools plugin in Oh My Zsh. In n-list.conf I've set the color scheme to black on white:
# Main color pair (foreground/background)...
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How to add QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct environment variable in Arch Linux?
I am using a standalone tiling window manager QTile. In QTile I want to organize my GTK and QT Themes. For GTK theme I used a program named "lzappearance" and it works perfectly fine. But, ...
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Icon theme subfolder precedence
Using the WhiteSur icon theme, I noticed that when there are two different icons with the same name (keyboard.svg for example) in different subfolders (apps/scalable and devices/scalable in this case),...
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Select GTK theme in Wine-staging under Plasma 5
I am using Plasma 5 with the dark default theme and would like to have dark-themed apps under Wine as close as possible to the main one. I had some success by using msstyles with winecfg, but I have ...
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Cedar Logic Simulator is unusable with WINE
So, I'm trying to use the Cedar Logic Simulator on linux with WINE. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic/) I am on Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS x86_64. However, with the standard settings of wine it ...
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How to dynamically switch terminal colors for all open terminals?
I use gnome-terminal on Ubuntu / Fedora. For color schemes I use base16-shell, along with its corresponding settings for my editor vi.
I have configured my .bashrc to set the base16 theme on start up. ...
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Environment variable to override GTK icon theme
There is an environment variable available for overwriting current system GTK theme, GTK_THEME. Is there anything available for icon theme as well as for overwriting current icon theme?
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Strange colors when using Java Swing App under Gnome (Cinnamon): scrollbar and / or selection invisible
I use a Java Swing application that seems to use the Java-Gnome-Look&Feel, i.e. the UI elements and colors. Normally you can pass the Swing Look&Feel to use via -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java....
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how to install themes/icons themes with lxappearance
In lxappearance there is a git "+ install" button but it only accepts .tar.gz files. When downloading a theme/icon theme, the file is a .tar.xz, and when I try to turn the .tar.xz into a ....
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Global dark mode switch in arch [duplicate]
I am looking for a way to have a shortcut to toggle from light/dark mode on my Arch (Artix) system ,with just a window manager.
The only thing that comes to mind is to grep the configs of every ...
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Default desktop theme still boots, after being deleted
Ubuntu 20.04 still boots into the default desktop theme, on Budgie and Gnome.
This is after I deleted/moved all the desktop environment themes:
sudo mv /usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes_backup
rm -...
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Ugly shadow in gnome top bar caused by a theme. How do I hide that?
Hello, I'm using the 'Canta' theme with my gnome DE. I very like the theme, but it has one problem. This ugly shadow is applied on buttons in the top bar, when focused:
(The blue thing in the picture)...
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Fedora 34 - Libreoffice - Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme
After upgrading to Fedora 34 I installed libreoffice. When I try to run it I get the following:
(soffice:8828): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:00:00.573: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
This may ...
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How do I increase the font size of the message list in Geary?
I just installed Geary and it doesn't seem possible to change the font size of the message list and the text on my laptop screen is too small.
Is there a way to modify this without affecting the rest ...
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Bootsplash setup with LUKS password prompt
I'm running manjaro with full disk encryption. I want to have "themed" boot experience and so I installed bootsplash. Unfortunately it doesn't theme the initial disk password prompt. Is it ...
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How to use different GTK theme in chrome and System?
I want to use the Arc-Darker theme in chrome and Arc-Dark in my system but when I click on use GTK+ in chrome then it uses the default system theme (Arc-dark) but I want it to use a different one.
I ...
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How to change title bar transparency in KDE Plasma 5?
Open SUSE Tumbleweed, very latest KDE
I played around with themes and things and can not find the settings anymore. Just read something (outdated I think) about manually editing files that define the ...
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theme of linux fedora
It is how my windows look like in fedora. I want dark theme for better performance of my eyes. You know dark theme is better for eyes. So, I was searching in google "How to change theme of fedora?...
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Change the theme of Gtk applications in a running session after KDE hijacking
I'm in an X11 session on Ubuntu 20.04. I'm not using a desktop environment. My window manager is Sawfish.
All of a sudden, running Gtk applications changed their appearance to what I've determined to ...
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How to remove all Zorin Default themes
I wanted a lightweight Linux Distro which when researching about it, I found XFCE to be lightweight but it looked ugly, but when I saw Zorin Lite edition looking good, I thought - It looks good and ...
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Can't change the theme of notifications after packages upgrade
I'm under xfce4.16 and after a sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, the notifications theme has changed by itself.
In the notification settings, the theme is still Default. If I try to change this ...
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How to create custom theme for XFCE?
I'm trying to create a custom theme to modify windows decorations colors.
I copied the folder of the theme that I want to modify (Smallscreen) from /usr/share/themes/ and pasted it to ~/.themes. I ...
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Aesthetic Distro
In windows, whenever you change the wallpaper, all the themes and settings of programs and windows border change accordingly providing a pleasant and aesthetic look. Kindly suggest me a linux distro/...
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Dash-to-Dock Extension in default Gnome Fedora is Crashing
Thanks for taking a look.
I have the default Gnome Fedora installed, and having liked the Dash-to-Dock extension in Arch, I continued to use it in Fedora. Thing is, the system always report a problem ...
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Finding/replacing NetworkManager applet icons (In Cinnamon DE)?
tl;dr - How do I determine which icons the NetworkManager applet uses so I can replace them with custom ones?
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I have the NetworkManager applet in my main panel/taskbar/systray area (was there ...
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How to automate switching between light and dark modes?
I am a user of Linux Mint. One feature I often wish I had in Linux is the ability to switch between light and dark modes depending on the time of the day, as in macOS and mobile devices.
I have put ...
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Remove themes from Chrome
I am using Chrome web browser on
MX Linux 19.2. I installed a theme from Chrome Web store. For removing an installed theme, you have to go to settings and click on appearance. There is an option to ...
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Where is the system-wide dark mode setting in Linux?
I'm using the Raspberry Pi version of Debian, which has both GTK and KDE programs, as well as bygone era programs like xpdf that still work just fine.
If I wanted to tell apps that I prefer Dark Mode, ...
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How do I apply darkTheme in gedit?
I am using a Linux beta in chromebook and gedit with plugins.
I want to make the gedit theme all dark. As you can see in the screenshot, I managed to change the theme, but the file browser and the ...
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GNOME Materia Theme Help
I've been using Manjaro for a few months and it's been great so far. I'm using GNOME and the Materia GTK theme for my desktop.
However, while the Materia Light Theme works perfectly, I can't switch to ...
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GTK3 programs not launching with correct theme or settings (even with config files)
Currently all my gtk3 apps launch in the standard Adwaita theme. I have been, so far unsuccessfully, trying to get them to launch in the dark variant.
I know this should work beacue when I do ...
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ranger file explorer — how to change the font (ie, to this linked example)
My question: how do I change the font in Ranger?
The custom colorscheme files I have downloaded don’t seem to ‘include’ their font (ie, see this one from this theme)?
I suspect it may involve ...
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Is it legal to copy themes between different linux distros?
I installed SentOS 8 with Xfce and there is not many gtk themes in it. Can I simply copy them from Mint 20 Xfce? Is it legal to copy the contents of the two folders /usr/share/icons/ and /usr/share/...
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Editing the theme inside `gnome-shell-theme.gresource` prevents Ubuntu from starting?
If you run Ubuntu, and you have a moment would you mind please checking the contents of two files for me, it could be really useful. See the "IF YOU ARE RUNNING UBUNTU:" paragraph.
I was ...
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How can I change the Notepadqq toolbar icons?
I am pretty content with my Linux Mint (19.3) setup with the Cinnamon DE. Since Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, I'm pretty confident that any solution you come up with, will work on Linux Mint as well.
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How to change the color of an active window title bar in GNOME?
I found on StackExchange how to change the color of the title bar of an inactive window (in GNOME 3):
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
headerbar.default-decoration {
background-color: #c00; /* red */
}
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Converting colo schemes to different applications
Do you know about Project Dracula? https://draculatheme.com/ Dracula is a project where a initially zsh color theme is ported to over 100 different applications.
I love this project, i think it's a ...
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How to set dark theme for KDE Apps on Xubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with XFCE4 dark theme, but KDE apps (for example: ktorrent) are using default bright theme.
How to set those apps globally to use dark theme?
(previously I never had this ...
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Create custom bash script to theme the xubntu desktop environment
I want to create a bash script or python script which will help me change the whole look and feel of xubntu xfce v20.04 lts hence I wanted guidance how should I approach this .I know bash but not much ...
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How do I change the start menu icon on Zorin OS?
I changed the start-here.png and the gnome-main-menu.png for all sizes in the Zorin theme. What am I doing wrong?
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how to change mouse cursor and sensitivity/acceleration on login screen?
I downloaded a cursor theme and put it into ~/.icons so I could go into Mouse settings and change it.
How do I:
apply this cursor theme to the login screen
change the mouse acceleration
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Messed up UI after Manjaro xfce reinstall
So.. I had the Arc Dark theme on my Manjaro xfce and I had to reinstall the OS. After that I installed the Arc theme again but now some windows look different and their theme doesn't change regardless ...
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Is there any way I can customize Gnome as much as possible?
I like macOS design. It's simple, clean, with beautiful colours, effect and animations. In the Linux world, I like Gnome because its design approach is very close to Mac. I want to configure Gnome in ...
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