Questions tagged [themes]
Questions about "themes" which alter the look of the interface.
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Themes broken after update?
After updating, my themes broke. If I use the default orange with light, it gets mixed between dark and light. If I use a different color, it will use the default gtk3 theme on gtk3 apps. If I use the ...
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How to manually install a theme for KCacheGrind?
I just installed KCacheGrind onto my WSL2 Ubuntu for profiling the performance of a program, but I can't stand the blinding light.
I've noticed that every time I run it through the terminal, there is ...
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Change a certain program GTK theme
Can I change a certain application's GTK theme that would differ from the system set one?
I'd like to change Spotify's theme to be Qogir-black, but keep everything else on Qogir-light (two different ...
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How do I re-install plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo?
I had KDE installed on my computer a bit ago. Switched back to gnome in 18.04. Recently upgraded to 20.04 and realized the Kubuntu loading screen still shows on startup. Did some research and found ...
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Can i change the buttons in firefox to look like in macOS?
I have ubuntu 22.04 and want to change the buttons theme to look like MacOS could you help me to fix this issue?
current setting:
What I want:
I installed gnome themes but it changed only icons in ...
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How Do I open a gresource file
I am attempting to edit the adwaita theme, the only way to do this is to open the gtk.gresource file.
gedit will not open the file, geany will not open the file.
How do I open the file so I can edit ...
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How to get Aero Glass effect (transparency in window decorations) in KDE Plasma 5?
How can I enable an effect similar to Aero Glass in Windows for window's titlebars without switching the default Breeze theme?
It can be done pretty easily in Unity/Compiz by gsettings altering ...
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How do I make Ubuntu 22.04 Dock more rounded and change border color?
Is there some easy way I can make the Dock for Ubuntu 22.04 more rounded like setting a CSS property border-radius: 999px and also I would like to change the border color. I cannot find a GNOM ...
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How do I control all window shadows?
How do I control all window drop/box shadows? Gnome themes seem to have different size shadows so I assume it is possible.
Here's what I have tried:
Editing the gtk.css at "~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk....
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How to change kolourpaint icon theme in Xubuntu
Following the instructions in Kolourpaint missing all icons on Ubuntu 20.10 after upgrading to Xubuntu 22.04.1 I do now have icons in kolourpaint, but they are the Breeze theme which I actively ...
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Enable dark mode on chrome's internal pages
I have dark mode working on chrome's internal pages in Windows 10. Is it not implemented in the Ubuntu version?
I'm using chrome version 75.0. My theme is Adwaita-dark.
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Trying to install WhiteSur
I was trying to install WhiteSur theme on my Ubuntu 18.04
I did ./install.sh in terminal after downloading theme pack
it shows the following error:
what's wrong here?
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Why do I get these differences on ppa vs. snap Communitheme in Ubuntu 18.04?
I installed Communitheme time ago by the PPA using these commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:communitheme/ppa**
sudo apt install ubuntu-communitheme-session**
Everything worked fine. I just had to ...
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How to de-uglify i3-wm
I recently installed the i3 Window Manager and have fallen thoroughly in love with it. However, it's rather ugly...
I followed the instructions here for getting started, and one of the points was ...
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How to force a application to use the right GTK version save dialog box
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.2, the long term support version, with unity/lightdm, and Chromium browser from the debian archives. Everything works great except for a couple of native integrations, for ...
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VLC Media Player not respecting GNOME theme settings [duplicate]
Edit: Solved it following these instructions.
I used to run Ubuntu MATE with the Dracula GTK theme, basically turned my entire OS into a dark theme environment.
VLC Media Player respected the theme ...
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install new splash screen and look and feel theme on KDE 5
i'm new in Kubuntu KDE 5 and i can not find any document about to how to install new splash screen and look and feel theme on KDE 5. in previous version of kde we can simply click on get new theme ...
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How can I influence the foreground color of Labels of Xubuntu's desktop icons
I am using Xubuntu 20.04. For some special purpose, I have installed Xubuntu on an USB stick. In order to always remind myself of using this special installation, I have set the background on it to ...
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Installing chromeOS theme on ubuntu not working
sudo snap connect [other snap];gtk-3-themes chromeos-themes:gtk-3-themes
error: snap "snap]" is not installed
gtk-3-themes: command not found
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for i in $(snap ...
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Ubuntu 22 Gnome dark theme window border
On the default Ubuntu Gnome light theme there is white border around window, and shade effect - it is easy to spot how large window is and where are its edges.
On the dark theme multiple overlapping ...
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Zoom Cloud meetings is unusable because of an issue with display
I installed Zoom Cloud meetings but the application is unusable because of an issue with display.
It launches but then the interface is so transparent that one cannot read what's on the screen.
I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 crashes after some time
Suddenly a few days ago I started Ubuntu 20.04, but after a minute it crashed. The only thing I could move was the mouse. The screen keeps the open files, but otherwise it doesn't respond to anything. ...
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Vanilla Gnome adwaita theme still uses brown folders
I followed this answer to install the default gnome theme on my Ubuntu install.
I have found though that adwaita-icon-theme-full still has the old brown adwaita icons.
Is there any way I can get the ...
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Change appearance of a MONO application
I would like to theme an application that uses the mono framework. I have tried various GTK2/3 "solutions" but these haven't changed anything.
just two examples I've tried:
env GTK_THEME="...
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Problem at login following update to Ubuntu Studio 22.04
I have a Lenovo T460p Laptop with Core i5 CPU, 16GB RAM and a 250GB SSD.
Error message at login page:
The current theme cannot be loaded due to the errors below please select another theme.
See ...
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How to change theme colors in ubuntu MATE
I remember that 2 weeks ago that I customized my Ubuntu MATE 18.04.4 installation to be darker and also feature a blue color. It's 2 weeks later, I've reinstalled the OS, and I can't figure out how I ...
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Ubuntu keeps switching back to light theme
I am using Ubuntu 22.10 and it keeps switching back to light theme even though the dark theme option has been selected.
Please let me know how I can fix this. Thank you
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Unable to switch " Application " themes using Tweaks in 22.04
I am not sure whether it has anything to do with installing the Orchis theme. But around that time, this issue started. I am able to switch icons, cursors and shell themes using theTweaks tool in 22....
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How do I modify the default Gnome theme?
This question details the convoluted process to install a new Gnome Shell theme, but the ones on gnome-look.org are a bit hit and miss. I would like to use the default theme and just change the ...
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SDDM error - Cannot assign to non-existent property "actionItemsVisible"
I am experiencing issues AFTER a seemingly perfect installation via USB with connected internet.
As soon as installation completes system prompts for reboot. No issues exist.
After rebooting and ...
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Dark Mode not working in 20.04
I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 and tried to enable dark mode but this is not working.
Here is one more weird thing I noted. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 but this message shows 18.04.
Update: This ...
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Delete all Ubuntu themed things and install default Adwaita for everything?
I dislilke the default Ubuntu theme.
I dont like the GTK3=4 Theme. I dont like the shell theme. I dont like the icon theme.
Is it possible to rip all of that out and replace it with the new Adwaita ...
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how do I install a new KDE theme?
I have been trying out KDE in Ubuntu 12.04 recently, and have downloaded a few themes from KDE-LOOK.ORG but I have no idea how to change the theme?
I can select a theme from the inbuilt repo from the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 / Gnome 3.28 - How to change default Emoji Font (Noto Color Emoji) to different font?
Ubuntu 18.04 introduced out-of-the-box color emoji support, and it ships with the google noto color emoji font by default.
However i want to replace those emojis with the Blobmojis (https://github....
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How to change the Ubuntu 19.04 GDM3 cursor theme?
I have successfully changed login screen theme by editing /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css but the cursor remains the default Yaru cursor, is there a way to change the login screen cursor to my ...
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Names of gnome-shell power-off/restart/logout dialogs
In the latest versions of gnome-shell the power-off/restart dialog has been split into separate dialogs (compare Ubuntu 20.04 with 21.10). Along with the log-out dialog they are all themed by the ...
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How does GTK theming work?
Running 22.04 LTS. I have installed gnome-extensions and gnome-tweaks, and I can get various applications as well as the GNOME shell to change their appearance. However, not all applications or ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 chose themes for the terminal that automatically switch between clear and dark
I have Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome. When I switch between light and dark themes every app switches fine and so it does the terminal, which is nice. However I really dislike the dark violet theme that ...
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How to make Firefox look more like the current GTK theme?
AFAIK this has always been an issue with Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. They always have a number of elements that don't align with the current theme, which can be fixed by the user creating and/or ...
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How to make snap apps use my gtk theme?
Snap now has GTK theming support - wonderful! So I just installed a snap app but when I opened it - it was using the Adwaita theme instead of my default Ubuntu 20.04 Yaru theme.
I looked around and ...
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Application theme and icon theme not working in applications
Applications are not following application theme and icons are also all messed up. Screenshot of applications
The shell theme is working fine and the fonts are fine too. I ran the following code ...
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Geany color scheme conf file: format and fields
I want to change the search result highlight of a Geany theme.
In the ~/.config/geany/colorschemes/ directory, we have *configuration files that I can only partially understand.
I have looked ...
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Code::Blocks appearance problems
I am using Code::Blocks on Kubuntu with the system theme set to Breeze-dark. When I run code blocks, the color scheme makes it look very bad.
I am trying to force light mode for just Code::Blocks and ...
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Kubuntu : Plasma global theme doesn't change the application style
Only built in themes are working properly in my fresh Kubuntu 22.04 install.
When I change the global theme (to a downloaded one from 'Get new global themes'), it merely changes the window decorations ...
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Change Blank Space Color of Scaled Wallpaper
If you set your wallpaper that is not the same scale as your screen, and set it to scaled mode on gnome-tweaks. You get a wallpaper with blank spaces. In windows, this blank spaces could be filled ...
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Dark mode not applied to all the applications
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 and switched to dark mode from appearance settings but it is not working on some applications like virtual box
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How can one make Firefox ignore my GTK theme entirely?
I have a dark GTK theme installed in my Ubuntu 10.10 install and a persona installed for Firefox that I also like.
The problem is that Firefox is using my dark GTK theme for items like buttons and ...
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How do you enable titlebar icons in 22.04
How do you enable icons in window titlebars, it appears in ubuntu 22.04 they have been hidden for all applications?
The examples below are from the same java program running on ubuntu and windows.
The ...
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Problem with theme after upgrading Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10
After upgrading Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 the dark theme stopped working for GTK4 apps. Nautilus, settings etc. have default light theme no matter what I change.
When i change dark/light theme in ...
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installing icons on gwsl
I'm running Ubuntu wsl2, Windows subsystem for Linux. GWSL is an awesome tool to run GUI apps on it. Going to GWSL Distro Tools > GTK Themes, allows you to use custom themes.
The problem is that ...
