I cannot set dark theme on menu in dolphin Manjaro KDE plasma with Awesome WM

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As you see below my dolphin file manager is not accepting dark theme with awesome wm. When I used KDE desktop environment everything works fine. I try to tweak setting on some files related to dolphin but not use. Only the background color the file manager changes and not the window bar or other menu sections.

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Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

Dolphin is a Qt-based application, and therefore its theme and colors must be set using a configuration utility based upon Qt. In non-Plasma desktop environments, you should use qt5ct, with or without kvantum-qt5 ─ the latter is a theme engine.

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I searched on forums, posted reddit and even edited some configuration files. But no use at all. Can I post an image of my problem here. Otherwise it will be hard to explain, when I say dark theme not applying it doesn’t means it is not applied at all. It only get applied to place/area where folders and files are shown inside a file manager and other areas like connected drives, main main menu on the top or sidebars all are in white color still. When using KDE desktop environment this was not a problem ( dark theme applied uniformly)…

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Thanks a lot for your reply.

I came to know about this solution on internet and from reddit, but never get an exact documentation explaining how to do it. I am using Awesome wm, do I need to run some kind of background process to do this using qt. If you know any material related to this please share.

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If you do not have the two packages installed, issue this command in a terminal window… :arrow_down:

sudo pacman -Syu qt5ct kvantum-qt5

Then, you should be able to start those applications from an application launcher menu ─ sorry, I have no experience with Awesome ─ or from a terminal.

Note: kvantum-qt5 is a theme manager that uses special themes made with scalable vector graphics. In order to use it, you must set the Qt theme in qt5ct to “kvantum” and then load a suitable theme into kvantum-qt5 by pointing it at the directory (“folder”) where you have unpacked the theme.

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