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Hello everyone. I am not a linux pro, I have been using debian for some time and finally I could concur to my fear and jump into arch linux, and WOW!
I cant believe that it was that smooth and sweet to set up. Arch community thanks for this piece of art.
However I had a problem in setting up the Gnome Global Dark Theme. At first after basic setup, I installed the xorg and after that gdm and gnome shell and gnome tweak tools. When I rebooted and logged in, I was not able to enable the Global Dark Theme. It was showing an error that was not telling much and after closing and reopening the tweak tool the switch was back to off. Using the terminal to see messages was not helpful too. After that I tried to install some basic packages and somehow the problem was fixed, but I could not pinpoint what fixed it.
Anyone had the same experience? (the weird thing is that gnome shell has the dark theme that was working from the beginning with no problem)
Thanks for your help
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Welcome to Arch.
I have not experienced what you describe, but it might help to list the packages that you installed right before the problem was fixed.
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thanks Pse.
do you mean than the Global Black Theme should work out of the box ? just like the gnome-terminl ?
actually I performed 3 installs( Virtualbox, PC and my laptop) and in the first two, after installing the gnome-shell I browsed the gnome group and installed every package I thought would be helpful except the ones that were obviously irrelevant, like evince , eog , ...
And unfortunately I couldn't guess that what was the cure. but in the third one I tried to be more watchful, but the conclusion was weird.
I got it working after installation of gnome-disk-utility !
and after the removed the package, the theme was still working good !
I am sure that I must have missed something but I dont know how to find it.
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Yes, the global dark theme should work out of the box after enabling it through gnome-tweak-tool. All gtk3 apps should pick the dark theme after that.
You can check the list of recently installed packages in Pacman's log, located at /var/log/pacman.log
In any case, I'm glad everything's fine.
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Ok. Thanks.
As you said it is working now and there is no problem.
I think if I get some free time I will try installation on virtualbox again to find out what the problem was.
Good day.
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