Pamac-gtk does not match Xfce theme

[pheiduck]

pamac-gtk does not match xfce Theme

[Lila-Kuh]

could help

[How-To] Fix appearance of Gtk4 apps with dark themes on Xfce

I recently installed Manjaro Xfce and started tweaking with it. Unfortunately, although there are currently three different places to set a theme (Appearance settings, Kvantum Theme manager, Qt Settings) i found out there are still some Apps, especially Gnome apps like baobab or gnome-logs that show white theming despite me selecting dark ones in all GUI settings apps. After searching high and low, i found a similar topic in the forum suggesting these are GTK4 apps…and that the theming still do…

[pheiduck]

I am concerned with the differences of gkt3 and gtk4 application in appearance.
I mean the Design is gnome-based, does it look like this on kde as well?
pamac-gtk3 is fine.

[SUMware]

I confirm the appearance difference. In addition, the search function no longer works.

This was resolved by retaining both pamac-cli and pamac-gtk version (10.5.1-2)

[pheiduck]

You can simply switch to pamac-gtk3

@Yochanan

sudo pacman -S pamac-gtk3

[cscs]

I dont understand…

pamac-gtk is gtk4 … xfce only adopted gtk3 in 2020 (gtk3 was released in 2011)…
XFCE has no way to handle gtk4 and probably wont for some time.

pamac-gtk is also new …

If you want to keep the classic, works with your theme, has seen multiple releases, etc etc … then just use pamac-gtk3 … the new one isnt even really considered ‘done’ as far as I can tell.
(that goes for you too @SUMware)

[Yochanan]

@pheiduck

pamac-gtk does not match xfce Theme

What theme? pamac-gtk uses Libadwaita and Gtk 4 while pamac-gtk3 uses Libhandy and Gtk 3. Neither Adapta nor Matcha support Libadwaita / Gtk 4.

Please don’t post vague messages in Announcements posts. Especially don’t post in both Unstable Updates and Testing Updates. Only post regarding feedback for recent issues for the appropriate branch. I’ve consolidated your posts here.

[bogdancovaciu]

@pheiduck

does it look like this on kde as well?

Once installed it will use the libadvaita style and color-scheme and will ignore the changes in System Settings > Appearance. It can be done to follow the KDE style and color scheme by doing one of this things discussed here for other GTK4 applications:

How to use Breeze theme in GTK4 apps?

I am using Manjaro KDE (default Breeze theme). However, the GTK4 apps like Blanket and Wike use the Adwaita theme instead of Breeze. However, in Kubuntu 22.04, they seem to use the Breeze theme. How to make GTK4 apps use Breeze theme in KDE Plasma in Manjaro?

You will still get this Adwaita warning if you run: GTK_THEME=Breeze pamac-manager

Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.