Hello. I’m using Debian testing with KDE Plasma 5.27. I’m experiencing a problem where GTK Flatpaks are not following the chosen GTK theme despite giving them permissions to access .themes and .icons folders found in the home directory. I tried the running the following commands in the terminal:

flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0:ro flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro

I even tried to specify a certain GTK theme to be chosen, that resulted in the flatpak changing to an ugly white-adwaita theme. I should note that this is happening exclusively with GTK Flatpaks, QT Flatpaks and GTK deb packages don’t seem to have this problem. What am I missing here? Any help would be appreciated.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    12·
    10 months ago

    In this video explains everything you should know about flatpak theming.
    As others said, you probably haven’t installed the chosen theme yet.

  • mitram2
    10·
    10 months ago

    Have you installed xdg-desktop-portal-gtk?

    • josephsh5OP
      1·
      10 months ago

      xdg-desktop-portal-gtk?

      Yes, it’s already installed.

  • hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    Old ass adwaita/libadwaita bug; happens on every distro… I’m really starting to think it is more related to libadwaita itself than to flatpak 😭

      • med@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        Apparently there has been a problem with gtk4 apps and theming in flatpak, only supporting adwaita light and dark - only found vague reference to it though, nothing concrete.

        Try

        flatpak-metadata sockets

        To see if you can find the GTK_THEME environment variable.

        You’ve given it permission to access the themes folder, now you need go point it at the themes

        sudo flatpak override --env=GTK_THEME=my-theme 
sudo flatpak override --env=ICON_THEME=my-icon-theme

        Where my-theme is the theme name, e.g. Adwaita-dark

        Apparently the flatseal gui has some functionality to set the theme too! Will check it out tomorrow to see what’s up.

    • furzegulo1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      10 months ago

      here’s the same as text

      sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

      systemctl --user edit xdg-desktop-portal.service

      1. paste these two lines
      [Service]

Environment="XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway"

      systemctl --user restart xdg-desktop-portal.service