Dark theme (style) not working properly after update

I have an update from yesterday. And, well, it’s different now: styles works fine in apps, including settings app (now it responds to switching style), the last thing that not working properly though is this “global style” (control panel with wi-fi and stuff and “Activities” screen), it’s still dark. But that doesn’t bother me much since I use dark style anyway.

After our last conversation yesterday I tried to google something similar but older and not Manjaro specifically, so I tried a few things, but none of them was working (with many reboots - with “power off”, not “reboot”). So I’m not sure what exactly helped, but here what I did:

  • In Tweaks played with “Appearance - Legacy applications”, but restored it to initial setting (Adw-gtk3-dark).

  • In Extensions played with “User themes” but also restored it to initial settings (on, “Settings - Themes - Default”).

  • Finally (and probably, most importantly) I found similar cases on other forums, where was recommended to install xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, so I installed them (from pamac)

pamac install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
pamac install xdg-desktop-portal

But, again, I rebooted several times between all of this and after, and there was no changes. Today I launched my laptop and accidentally noticed that Calendar became dark as it should be (and then checked the rest).

P.S. BTW, I have little stuff installed and rarely change something: it’s 444 Gb free on my 500 Gb SSD (including the OS), so my system doesn’t look like very messy or unusual.

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No its the same problem I think. Exactly like @um3402ya Screenshot shows and describes.

Then those links will still be valuable for correct use of the forum. Cheers.

Glad it’s now working for you. Cheers.

Installing xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome fixed it for me. At least settings and nautilus. The control panel as well as system dialogs are still stuck in Dark Mode, which isn’t a problem for me either.

@soundofthunder I tried to follow these posts, if I didn’t somewhere please say so. It’s my first but hopefully not last post, so it helps. Thanks & Cheers

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A solution! @um3402ya :trophy: @Le0nas :trophy: @Yochanan

Yes, I just remembered this Arch bug report, then I come back here and turns out folks already figured it out. :+1:

FS#79759 - [libadwaita] 1:1.4.0-1 Broken dark theme when missing xdg-desktop-portal

So, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome missing in Gnome, while being installed in non-Gnome environments. Sure is causing some frustration among Users. :scream_cat:

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