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Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #15 –
Quote from: Ambie – on
Maybe it is XFCE thing, I don't have any DE just Openbox.

Yeah it's xfce+openRC  fault, the runit version which I got on my old system works good. The runit version of Artix seems to be more stable. There's a tiny chance this dark theme is applied by root user so there is no way I can change anything from the user side.

lxappearance shows white theme only inside itself, it doesn't change anything else. Think we should call the dev cavalry as my best guess is it a flaw related with user permissions, Root-User conflict or wrong permissions.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #16 –
From which iso did you install your system? I'd like to try it in VM.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #17 –

 From stable iso's  xfce with openRC

artix-xfce-openrc-20240823-x86_64.iso

The only light theme that works is high contrast theme which is unusable, it has too much white.

edit: apart from sound which I always need to enable, adwaita not working
 I've discovered I can't change gnome-calculator from basic to advance, advance math functions do not show up at all. So having these problems in mind I guess it's a general problem setting the proper attributes to the apps, it's not a theming issue it's an openRC problem, or it's the way it works with the xfce DE.

Tried also to change title from shell and it doesn't want to do it, however it worked at first.

It's an iso problem or something more nasty which I don't think it can be fixed like we think we could. It would be nice if we can have somebody to check if it happens on their machine too.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #18 –
You could try:
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xfwm4 --replace
and see if it reloads the theme correctly when the system is fully up and running. Save and close any open things first as a precaution. It might not be exactly a theme you are seeing though. When XFCE switched to accelerated graphics the window borders and buttons were drawn with Cairo, but it wasn't working properly when I last used it. Even on machines where it sort of worked with Intel graphics elements were often just grey when they were colored before, but I've seen screenshots on here where it does work, so it's hardware dependent what you get.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #19 –
I enabled Adwaita white theming on live artix-xfce-openrc-20240823-x86_64.iso in VM. The key is "gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme" setting in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GTK#Dark_theme_variant). Also there's separate setting for panel (Panel preferences - Appearance - Dark mode), it was disabled by default but I needed to enable and disable it again to apply white theme on panel. AlsoI needed to kill and restart all thunar processes for it to take effect. Most likely on installed system simple reboot will suffice.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #20 –

 Nope, tried xfwm --replace and nothing happens

Some apps fail to set their proper attributes, either be a theme, a calculator, pulse audio or changing title for the bash shell. Think it's the iso fault but let's wait till other guys may check if it happens for to also.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #21 –
Quote from: Ambie – on
I enabled Adwaita white theming on live artix-xfce-openrc-20240823-x86_64.iso in VM. The key is "gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme" setting in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GTK#Dark_theme_variant). Also there's separate setting for panel (Panel preferences - Appearance - Dark mode), it was disabled by default but I needed to enable and disable it again to apply white theme on panel. AlsoI needed to kill and restart all thunar processes for it to take effect. Most likely on installed system simple reboot will suffice.



 used

gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=0 instead of 1 and now it's like I'm setting 'high contrast' theme. Also other themes become numb by setting that 0 instead of 1

Panel becomes white even if it's set to dark.

Calculator also has issues switching from basic to advance. It doesn't happen much and sound always get disabled after reboot.
 
Tnx for help but you see there are issues, try the sound part and gnome-calculator.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #22 –
gnome-calculator does changes to advanced and all other modes (again, it is on live iso in VM). It is dark-themed and I think it's because it is on GTK4 which needs separate tuning and maybe even installing some light themes. And for the sound part sorry, I can't be any help as my VM lacks sound support.
 

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #23 –

 Are you sure about the calculator? Mine changes just the name/title from basic to advance but the buttons are pretty much the same as for basic.

edit :  Now I can't change it back to dark themes, I'm stuck in this high contrast. Very annoying stuff

I will try to reinstall xfce related things maybe they will get fixed

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #24 –
Quote from: Surf3r – on
Are you sure about the calculator?
Pretty sure.



Quote from: Surf3r – on
edit :  Now I can't change it back to dark themes, I'm stuck in this high contrast. Very annoying stuff
Well I can. Through basic Settings — Appearance just apply Artix-dark theme.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #25 –

 noo not programming..that seems to work on mine too..basic to advance looks the same while a working gnome calc switching from basic to advance is hugely distinct

edit: nope programing doesn't work as it should either, you're right

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #26 –

 Hmm could it be because I've used f2fs file system on root and home partitions?

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #28 –

Yeah but you see, in your VM you did not made all the updates and even if everything might look ok in VM, when trying on a real machine might show up some glitches.

Re: Adwaita white theme not doing its thing

Reply #29 –
Sure. VM is VM not updated on top of that. And even on real machines there are hardware differences that can produce glitches. I was only interested in dark/light theme part of your problem because several years ago I was solving similar problem but vice-versa: dark theming refused to fully apply. Since then I know some things about theming in linux. But your problems is not only that so maybe reinstalling and maybe from the base iso is what I'd do in your situation. Cheers.