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Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Hi forum!

This is my first post here. I come from Gentoo which I have been using for almost 20 years now. Now, I want to give Artix a try (as it's systemd-free ;-). I installed it in a qemu vm to try it out, which was pleasantly simple.

But the first thing I wanted to do was to get rid of that default dark Plasma theme and switch to the default light Breeze theme. And I didn't succeed to do so. I searched if there's some trick I didn't get, and found https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1380.0.html – which alas didn't help either (I hope I'm neither a complete n00b, nor some unpleasant troll … I thought this shouldn't be much of a problem …).

The problem is that, even after having switched everything about "Theme", "Appearance" and "Color" to "Breeze", "Light", etc. (Applications style: Breeze, Plasma style: Breeze, Colors: Breeze classic, Windows decorations: Breeze), some parts of the UI still are rendered dark, cf. the attached screenshot of Dolphin.

It would be very kind if someone of you gave me some advice on this. I really want to give Artix a chance, but at the moment, I'm struggling at the very first step ;-)

Thans in advance for all help!

Cheers, Tobias

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #1 –
Okay, after some further investigation, this seems to be due to the install from the artix-plasma-runit ISO, whereas the only official way is to do it manually.

After completely deleting everything in ~/, I was able to get rid of the rendering artifacts.

Sorry for the spam ;-)

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #2 –
Quote from: l3u – on
Okay, after some further investigation, this seems to be due to the install from the artix-plasma-runit ISO, whereas the only official way is to do it manually.

After completely deleting everything in ~/, I was able to get rid of the rendering artifacts.

Sorry for the spam ;-)
Not spam. It's a useful addition to the internet. I suppose the point you've shown is that some of the customisation done to make the initial desktop of an install iso 'look nice' can be hard to override. But blitzing ~/. will do it and on a fresh install nothing to lose.

Welcome to Artix.

Though I've got to say: light themes are so 90's. Give your eyes a break  :P  :D

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #3 –
Welcome to the sunny (light) side of the street!  I have been hacking at the linux desktop for about 20 years and i def agree with you on artix as the os of choice. Sorry for your troubles.  I have to admit though i do prefer the easy on the eyes dark theme. but hey, you do you...  i preferred the light theme for a long time, then i got old.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #4 –
Well, I'll turn 40 this year, so probably, I'm already old ;-)

What I'm definitely too old for is compiling my system (plus the one on my notebook, the one of my wife, the one of my parents etc.) for days and days (just to mention QtWebEngine or such) on Gentoo. That was really cool back then, for all the optimization and full control over the system. But it bothers me more and more after all the years. I always said I love/hate Gentoo, and I still kind of love it. But at least for the pure office systems ("I just want a file manager, LibreOffice, Firefox and KMail") on machines other than my own desktop, it's simply too much mess.

So I think Artix is actually what I need. Like it's starting from scratch, like Gentoo (I did a Gentoo install often enough to setup a Linux without an installer), without the system being blown up with tons of stuff I don't need. Plus it has a rolling release, so I'm not stuck with some version of something until the next release. Plus it doesn't have systemd.

That's the premium bonus for Artix! I have to mess with systemd on two Ubuntu servers, and it really sucks. E.g. why does an init system has to care about DNS lookups and all kinds of stuff?!

Thanks for the warm welcome :-) I'll try to install Artix "the right way" with some handwork in a qemu vm to see what has to be done, and then my wife gets a new Linux distro for the first time. And then, we'll see what will happen ;-)

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #6 –
So I tried installing Artix via the "base" image. And setup an OpenRC/Plasma/KDE GPT EFI machine in just some minutes. Without any hassle. With vanilla KDE/Plasma. This rocks! I'm really impressed how easy this was, yet still completely configurable. I think I found my future distro :-)

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #7 –
Quote from: l3u – on
So I tried installing Artix via the "base" image. And setup an OpenRC/Plasma/KDE GPT EFI machine in just some minutes. Without any hassle. With vanilla KDE/Plasma. This rocks! I'm really impressed how easy this was, yet still completely configurable. I think I found my future distro :-)

Awesome.

Also, 40 is young
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #8 –
Quote from: l3u – on

That's the premium bonus for Artix! I have to mess with systemd on two Ubuntu servers, and it really sucks. E.g. why does an init system has to care about DNS lookups and all kinds of stuff?!


one init to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?

just speculating tho..
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: Switching Plasma to the default light Breeze theme on a fresh install

Reply #9 –
My thoughts exactly