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Jakie121

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Registered: 2024-04-26

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GNOME titlebar theming are not applied with under ~/.config/gtk-4.0

when i give sudo

the theme for the titlebar is properly applied while the
when launched with user only

it falls back to adwaita
same logic applies to Wireshark but while all other software like Geany it was applied in both,

changing CSS in

~/.config/gtk-4

does not help at all but works for other apps like Geany

please do help because this inconsistency it makes my gnome looked ugly

this kind of issue is bugging me for 3 installations

The theme I used is Colloid-gtk-theme which has all the necessary files to theme, but this issue somehow appeared after prolonged use of the gnome. I went back to see the history and found nothing. Do help, thanks!

I tried to use Unite gnome extension to disable the title bar, but it was unable to get it removed

this issue seems to work presistently on new user

also only on wayland, X11 never had this kind of issue

normally with sudo mode uses these

╭─user@macbook ∞ /usr/share/themes
╰─$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  50 May 22 05:46 Adwaita
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  50 May 22 05:46 Adwaita-dark
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula-hdpi
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  10 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula-xhdpi
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  36 May 22 05:42 Default
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  36 May 22 05:42 Emacs
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  50 May 22 05:46 HighContrast
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  14 May 22 05:42 Raleigh

and when under user

╭─user@macbook ∞ ~/.themes
╰─$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 user user 152 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula
drwxr-xr-x 1 user user  10 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula-hdpi
drwxr-xr-x 1 user user  10 Sep 14 16:55 Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula-xhdpi

i have set that

╰─$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name
'Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula'
╭─user@macbook ∞ ~
╰─$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme
'Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula'
╭─user@macbook ∞ ~
╰─$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme
'Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula'

this issue somehow came up days until i noticed this issue

most of the gtk theming has to be done under

╰─$ cat /etc/environment
GTK_THEME="Colloid-Green-Dark-Compact-Dracula"

edit:
i think the issue underlies on

~/.config/gtk-4.0/

CSS implementation, I think i it broke when applied this to it

regardless of these it used to work properly

Last edited by Jakie121 (2025-09-15 18:10:48)