🎨️ First setup#

Note

You can go to Preferences and apply overrides for Flatpak

Manual setup#

Libadwaita applications#

No additional setup is required for native Libadwaita applications.

For Flatpak Libadwaita applications, you need to override their permissions:

  • Run sudo flatpak override –filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0 or

  • Use Flatseal and adding xdg-config/gtk-4.0 to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications

Vanilla GTK 4 applications#

Use this guide to theme vanilla GTK 4 applications.

GTK 3 applications#

  • Install and apply the adw-gtk3 theme (don’t forget to install the Flatpak package!)

  • For Flatpak applications, you need to override their permissions:

    • Run sudo flatpak override –filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0 or

    • Use Flatseal and adding xdg-config/gtk-3.0 to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications

Revert Theming#

Note

You can press on the menu button in the headerbar and press Reset Applied Color Scheme

Image of the hamburger menu

Manual revert#

Remove GTK 3 and GTK 4 configs#

Run the following command in your terminal

rm -rf .config/gtk-4.0 .config/gtk-3.0

Remove adw-gtk3 theme#

Run the following command in your terminal to remove Flatpak adw-gtk3 theme

flatpak uninstall adw-gtk3

Run the following command in your terminal to remove local adw-gtk3 theme

rm -rf .themes/adw-gtk3 .themes/adw-gtk3-dark .local/share/themes/adw-gtk3 .local/share/themes/adw-gtk3-dark

Reset Flatpak overrides#

Run the following command in your terminal

sudo flatpak override --reset

Warning

This will reset all Flatpak overrides, such as Firefox Wayland override