GNOME Apps on Xfce in the future

[karlkarlsn100]

Hey there,

how do you guys deal with the upcoming GNOME Apps (libadwaita)?
How can I keep a consistent look? Move to GNOME or find alternative Apps?
Screenshot of the visual mismatch:

[megavolt]

Looks like Dark and Light theme are mixed…

You add something like that to /etc/environment:

GTK_THEME=theme:variant

Also check xfce4-settings

[Yochanan]

@Yochanan

If you want to change the theme of Libadwaita applications on another Gtk desktop like Xfce or Cinnamon, you can use the following commands:

Light Adwaita theme:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme default

Dark Adwaita theme:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme prefer-dark

[karlkarlsn100]

Thank you for your time

@megavolt everything was set to Matcha-dark-sea

@Yochanan here is the result of gtk-color-scheme: prefer-dark and gtk-theme: Adwaita-dark:

However older GNOME Apps (e.g. Disks 41.0) respect the configured theme and variant.

[Yochanan]

If you’re not using the unstable branch, then what I mentioned will not apply for Libadwaita applications until GNOME 42 packages make it to other branches.

@karlkarlsn100

Disks 41.0

That’s a “Legacy application”; aka a Gtk 3 application.