bug: themes aren't being applied

[M1ke-Gru]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

What happened?

I clicked on the "Apply theme" button and the theme wasn't applied to other applications. After that I closed the app, reopened it, and was met with the default light adwaita theme inside of the app, instead of the theme I applied.
This happened on Garuda Linux (Arch), tried it out on Cinnamon and Qtile, with the same result.
Also I would like to add, that I can't install GNOME for some reason, so maybe this is not the bug in the app, but just me messing up something on my system, linked to the GTK/GNOME.

To Reproduce

1. Open the app
2. Change the theme inside the app
3. Click apply
4. Open other libadwaita app and see, that none of the changes are applied

Expected behavior

No response

Screenshots

No response

OS

Garuda Linux Qtile Edition

DE/WM version

Qtile

Version

Literally installed it today

Installation method

Flatpak from Flathub

Enabled system extensions (GNOME specific)

Lxappearance

Additional context

Again, this might be just the problem with me messing something else up, because GNOME and Budgie won't start. Although Cinnamon runs perfectly fine.

Code of Conduct

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[0xMRTT]

Could you try to run it from the cli and send us the output ?

[M1ke-Gru]

gradience

(process:18362): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:17:24.165: Theme parser error: gtk-dark.css:7570:21-28: Expected a valid color.

(process:18362): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:17:24.165: Theme parser error: gtk-dark.css:7575:21-28: Expected a valid color.

(process:18362): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:17:24.165: Theme parser error: gtk-dark.css:7745:21-28: Expected a valid color.

(process:18362): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:17:24.165: Theme parser error: gtk-dark.css:7751:21-28: Expected a valid color.

(process:18362): Adwaita-WARNING **: 23:17:24.186: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
[Gradience] WARNING: Custom preset not found. Fallback to Adwaita

// Here I tried applying adwaita dark

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gradience/frontend/main.py", line 623, in apply_color_scheme
PresetUtils().apply_preset("gtk4", self.preset)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gradience/backend/theming/preset_utils.py", line 258, in apply_preset
with open(
^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: '/home/mike/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css'

[ghost]

Not sure if your issue is the same as mine was, but try making sure Gradience has permission to read and write xdg-config/gtk-4.0 and xdg-config/gtk-3.0.

[zefr0x]

Not sure if your issue is the same as mine was, but try making sure Gradience has permission to read and write xdg-config/gtk-4.0 and xdg-config/gtk-3.0.

The :ro option is used for them in the flatpak. It should be :rw to be able to read and write, or may be :create to create the directory if it doesn't exist.

[M1ke-Gru]

@MatrixFurry where is xdg-config? I am a little bit of a noob and I can't find it. Simple search in home folder showed me nothing, and it took absurdly long to find it on my filesystem.

[daudix]

The xdg config directory are ~/.config/

[M1ke-Gru]

@daudix-UFO it looks like it is missing

[daudix]

The whole .config or just gtk-3.0 and gtk-4.0 ?

[ghost]

@M1ke-Gru:

@MatrixFurry where is xdg-config? I am a little bit of a noob and I can't find it. Simple search in home folder showed me nothing, and it took absurdly long to find it on my filesystem.

Try doing echo "$XDG_CONFIG". If it is blank, your config directory should be at ~/.config/. If it is set, check that directory. Make sure you're showing hidden files with the -a flag for ls or exa :). If you're using a GUI, make sure you have hidden files enabled there. If the directories gtk-3.0 or gtk-4.0 are missing inside your configuration directory, create them.

[medmedin2014]

I'm using EasyEffects on Plasma desktop 5.27.9, and can't bear that ugly Adwaita theme.

So I installed Gradience via AUR, and applying Dark Breeze changes the current running Gradience instance, but if I reopen it again it reset to Adwaita, and EeasyEffects always use Adwaita theme.

[amrlly]

Had the same problem. Gradience did have permissions to xdg-config/gtk-3.0 and xdg-config/gtk-4.0 but the directories were not created. So, check if those dirs exist.