Dark Mode broke after last update on Fedora 39

[guara (Daniele Guarascio)]

Hi,

After latest updates (including libadwaita 1.4.0 rc) dark mode is not working anymore on my system, switching to dark mode doesn’t do anything and apps keeps the light mode, do you have any hints to triage this and help me to open a bug report to the relevant project?

[student20 (Eric Waters)]

I have also run into this. It seems to affect everything but the wallpaper, which changes to the dark mode wallpaper just fine, and GTK3 apps, which seem to follow the theme. Or maybe I messed up something, I don’t know.

[guara (Daniele Guarascio)]

I wasn’t using a dynamic wallpaper, I tried and I can confirm that wallpaper switch to dark correctly.

[barryascott]

Usually people testing fedora join the test email list and report issues there.

You can join the list here Info | test@lists.fedoraproject.org - Fedora mailing-lists

[lunakittyyy (Kaylie)]

Same here. Apps from Flatpak also don’t respect your titlebar button settings, I think the xdg portal is broken

[steiner (Daimar Stein)]

That’s an issue with the latest version of xdg-desktop-portal, should be fixed pretty soon.

[canderson9 (Christiano Anderson)]

Same here, dark mode is not working. It should be fixed very soon.

[lunakittyyy (Kaylie)]

works again as of the latest update. nice!

[wuqso]

Several apps are still completely bright in dark style, such as FileZilla, Gnote, Grsync, Rhythmbox, Sudoku. Some others have only dark title bars, such as Kigo, KolourPaint, Okular, qBittorrent, SciDAVis, TeXstudio.

[lunakittyyy (Kaylie)]

Can’t reproduce this on my machine:

[mr2dave]

I’m up to date and mine’s still comcastic:

[grumpey (Joe)]

You may have to use gnome-tweaks and set a legacy theme that is dark and to your liking.

Edit: I tend to favor this one, GitHub - lassekongo83/adw-gtk3: The theme from libadwaita ported to GTK-3

[mr2dave]

That did the trick nicely, thanks for the tip.

[wuqso]

These are snapshots of some apps in dark mode on my computer.

[macxpat1 (Unix Machine)]

I confirm that, since Fedora 39 and in Fedora 40 up to now, legacy apps like Rhythmbox and AisleRiot Solitaire are not styled in Dark when this style is selected in Gnome Settings.

In the meantime, as already mentioned previously in this thread, using adw-gtk3 in Tweaks solves the issue.

[lendenu (Lorenzo Celsi)]

I am on Fedora workstation 39 and Rhythmbox is shown in dark theme.
BUT I have installed “gnome-themes-extra” and then I have selected “adwaita dark” from “gnome settings” (it is the legacy dark theme, not the dark version of the current gnome theme).