After update the top bar of all applications, for instance the terminal application, tabs on firefox, etc appear in dark background and white letters as shown here:
Did you just now update from GNOME 41 to 42? That happened months ago. See:
It looks like you’re using Matcha (matcha-gtk-theme). It is not yet compatible with GNOME 42. Use a theme like Adw / Adw-dark (adw-gtk-theme) for consistent Gtk 3 & 4 theming.
Where? In the terminal text itself or elsewhere? The terminal theme is independent of the Gtk theme.
I have Extensions disabled (i.e. no dash to panel or dash to dock are interfering), but no icons are shown when I try to press window key and search for any application, e.g. “Extensions” I get the “searching” message but never appears any result
Please don’t create separate topics for every detail you notice. It’s obvious it’s been quite some time since you updated without reading any announcement posts.
I’m not sure, but I think it may have something to do with gnome-shell-extension-unite that apparently triggered this behaviour.
You may see in the above screenshot that this is not in the terminal itself but in the top bar, or “title bar” sort to speak, i.e. the one that just reads david@david-pc:~
In the other screenshot I show the firefox tabs which also have the same behaviour: white letters over black background.
Before the update, both situations were grey background and black letters which I became very much used to.
@Yochanan Using tweaks, I have set Themes > Icons to Adwaita (default) as well as Legacy Applications to Adwaita (default) which brings the terminal window and firefox to white background and dark letters recovering the behaviour I had before the update.
However, the second part of the problem (applications top bar), i.e. Dash to Panel extension does not work. I’ve disabled all Extensions and enabled just Dash to panel and AppIndicator but the dash to panel does not seem to work.
EDIT: The Home key + search for any application yields no results (a “searching” message that runs forever).
@Yochanan I solved the problem, many thanks for the hints.
The problem escalated, so I uninstalled and installed again, also removing /home/david/.config/dconf/user.
The origin of all this started after the gnome-shell update, where the Themes and Legacy Applications settings changed, resulting in seeing all this in Matcha:
I’ve been finding this problem every now and then a gnome-shell package is updated, the settings are changed. @Manjaro-Team Is it possible to maintain the users’ gnome settings after the update the same with respect to those that were before the update? Many thanks for all the hard work keeping up this community. All the best.