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icar

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Registered: 2020-07-31

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[Solved with workaround] Appearance tab in gnome-settings

Hello, I've been trying to understand how to add the extra sidebar option in gnome-settings for Appearance. PopOS and Ubuntu implement this out of the box.
I am wondering how because I recently installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pop-gtk-theme-git/ and the popover menus are white. In PopOS, to change this color, they implement this:

https://ubuntucommunity.s3.dualstack.us … fd429f.png

Is there any way that I can get them same for Arch? I tried to, besides searching for a while, cloning  https://github.com/pop-os/theme-switcher and `make` and `sudo make install` but no option there.

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Last edited by icar (2020-10-31 11:08:40)

StJimmy

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Registered: 2020-02-26

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Re: [Solved with workaround] Appearance tab in gnome-settings

I believe Canonical / the Ubuntu developers patch GNOME Control Center to include this applet (as they did since the early days of GNOME 3 under Unity, albeit differently). You'd have to get the patched sources for gnome-control-center from Ubuntu and compile them, would be my conjecture (assuming my assumption is correct).

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icar

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Registered: 2020-07-31

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Re: [Solved with workaround] Appearance tab in gnome-settings

I believe Canonical / the Ubuntu developers patch GNOME Control Center to include this applet (as they did since the early days of GNOME 3 under Unity, albeit differently). You'd have to get the patched sources for gnome-control-center from Ubuntu and compile them, would be my conjecture (assuming my assumption is correct).

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I will compile and try to use https://github.com/pop-os/gnome-control-center and hope for the best ;-)
Thanks for the insight.

Iep. no luck. I don't really understand it. I do `meson build` and then I go into ./build and `sudo meson install`. But nope.
If anyone that has experience with this compilation process could take a look at that repo and understand how to install it, I'd be really grateful. And I'd think about creating an AUR package for that.

Last edited by icar (2020-10-27 00:25:04)

Spike29

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Registered: 2020-10-16

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Re: [Solved with workaround] Appearance tab in gnome-settings

Hello,

You can probably change the shell and GTK themes to your liking with gnome-tweaks.
I use another theme with light and dark variants as well and that's how I do it.

Last edited by Spike29 (2020-10-26 22:16:24)

icar

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Re: [Solved with workaround] Appearance tab in gnome-settings

I ended up doing it the easy way: I copied from a PopOS install (you could do that from a live usb I assume) the whole /usr/share/themes/Pop-dark/ to the Arch's install after setting it as dark in the appearance tab in PopOS. It did the trick. I'm not gonna receive updates, but it's not crucial with a theme. If something is visually "off" I'll just redo the process after updating in PopOS.