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Kef0

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Registered: 2026-08-03

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(SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

I recently installed MangoWM with Dank Material Shell, and upon some tinkering, i managed to get most things working, aside from Dolphin, which has this weird color scheme. I have no idea of how to fix it, neither how to search for this issue lol.

Excuse the link, but i COULD NOT manage to show an image here

https://imgur.com/a/SmhKB1o

Last edited by Kef0 (2026-08-06 19:58:58)

Niafel

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Registered: 2026-08-04

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

Install qt6ct-kde (AUR, regular qt6ct doesn't work for KDE apps)

Set env variables QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct (I set them in /etc/environment)

Should work now. You can run "qt6ct" and configure various stuff.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

You shouldn't need to set QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland , it will not do anything at best and break software that bundles a Qt without the wayland platform (despite xcb being available via xwayland). The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME variable is likely relevant and necessary

Niafel

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

You shouldn't need to set QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland , it will not do anything at best and break software that bundles a Qt without the wayland platform (despite xcb being available via xwayland). The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME variable is likely relevant and necessary

Oops, I was just following qt6ct's docs, albeit blindly... Makes sense.

Kef0

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Registered: 2026-08-03

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

Install qt6ct-kde (AUR, regular qt6ct doesn't work for KDE apps)

Set env variables QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct (I set them in /etc/environment)

Should work now. You can run "qt6ct" and configure various stuff.

I added both to no success

seth

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

Where and how do you set them?

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof dolphin)/environ

But wrt https://imgur.com/a/SmhKB1o you might want to elaborate on the problem and whether it's specifically the color of the odd rows…
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/k … t/nml108c/

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Kef0

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Registered: 2026-08-03

Posts: 3

Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

Where and how do you set them?

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof dolphin)/environ

But wrt https://imgur.com/a/SmhKB1o you might want to elaborate on the problem and whether it's specifically the color of the odd rows…
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/k … t/nml108c/

Oh, actually it just took a reboot to work. Its fully fixed now. Thanks

seth

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Re: (SOLVED) Issue with Dolphin theme (DMS, MangoWM)

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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