Most of Gnome 3 applications in the default look (Adwaita) use bright theme. But some of them use dark theme (most notably totem and eog). I hate it, it makes me totally disoriented.
Is there an easy way to ban the Dark Theme globally? I.e. forbid all applications to opt-in for the dark theme and force them to use the default (bright) theme instead?
Thanks.
Based on bigben87's solution I have a slightly better one. It is still highly suboptimal, but it seems nothing better exists at the moment. Please be aware that by copying part of the theme to you local directory you will no longer receive system updates of that theme (OTOH theme updates won't break it). It's advisable to re-do this approach once in a while (after distro upgrade and such).
mkdir -p ~/.themes/Adwaita-NoDarkcp -r /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-* ~/.themes/Adwaita-NoDarkrm ~/.themes/Adwaita-NoDark/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.cssln -s gtk.css ~/.themes/Adwaita-NoDark/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.cssgnome-tweak-tool and select Theme -> GTK+ Theme -> Adwaita-NoDarkeog and totem and check that they are using light themeGnome-shell restart shouldn't be necessary. If you don't see the new theme in gnome-tweak-tool, restart Gnome Shell (Alt+F2 -> r -> Enter) and run the tool again.
How to put everything back:
gnome-tweak-tool and select Theme -> GTK+ Theme -> AdwaitaIf you want you can also delete your modified theme:
rm -r ~/.themes/Adwaita-NoDark
I found a simple, but brutal solution:
sudo mv /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css_bck
sudo ln -s /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css
Afterwards EOG and Totem look a bit damaged restart the gnome-shell to fix this press Alt+F2 and run 'r'.
Undo procedure:
sudo unlink /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css
sudo mv /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css_bck /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css
If you did not make a backup or want to be sure to be back to default:
sudo yum reinstall adwaita-gtk3-theme
Afterwards EOG and Totem look a bit damaged restart the gnome-shell to fix this press Alt+F2 and run 'r'.
It would be nicer to achieve this by overriding a default in ~/.local or ~/.config or so, but I could not get it working that way.
I've seen options in the gnome-tweak-tool that let you change the theme. Have you tried it yet?
Asked: 2012-01-05 08:32:46 -0500
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I'm sure it can be done by editing the CSS that gnome3 uses. I haven't played around with it yet, so I can't exactly pin point what to change yet.