Hello! I have a question about theming GNOME (oh no!) on Bluefin (double oh no! haha!)
Out of curiosity I downloaded a couple of gtk themes and placed them on home/my_username/.themes. All’s good, GNOME Tweaks can access them and I see my shell changing accordingly. But whenever I select these themes, the window buttons (maximize, minimize, close) don’t change at all. Is there something I’m missing, or an extension that might be overriding the theme?
Thanks in advance! Love how Bluefin introduced me to distrobox containers-- I’m never going back to “regular” distros for my main pc
Yeah, I did that already. I actually needed to do it so I could find the installed themes on the first place. That’s why I’m so confused at the moment, I don’t see a reason for the window buttons to “escape” the customization…
Sure! Here’s a screenshot as an example. I applied the Whitesur Light Nord theme-- it’s clearly selected on Gnome Tweaks, and I can clearly see the windows changing color and even the little apple logo at the top. But the window control buttons remain the same as stock Gnome. That’s what I was wondering about.
Awesome! Do you remember what you did for that, exactly? I tried going into flatseal and giving all apps permission for my themes folder but that doesn’t seem to have changed things:
Thanks! That seems to have changes some things at least, but now I’m confused again…!
This approach seems to have worked for Firefox and Chrome (both flatpaks) but nothing happened to the File Browser or any other flatpaks I have (in this example, Alpaca). Do you or anyone else happen to have any ideas?
I’m thinking the directions for your theme are outdated maybe.
Putting it all in ~/.themes isn’t the best way and will cause problems.
You should be using XDG standards.
So the files you put in ~/.themes should go in ~/.local/share/themes.