Theme wrong

[sezanzeb]

Hey, does anyone know why easyeffects would run with a different theme than the rest of the system? I think this is Adwaida or something, everything else uses Arc-Dark

Running gnome 41.4

[vchernin]

On Gnome 42 you can set dark theme in the settings app and that will make EasyEffects dark.

Generally for libadwaita apps the gnome tweaks menu won’t work, but you can set GTK_THEME. However, that also needs the theme to support GTK4 + libadwaita. Note these aren’t technically supported by GTK since they can lead to broken looking apps, but it can still work.

FWIW for libadwaita there should be a recoloring API of some sort in the future.

[sezanzeb]

sudo pkill -f -9 easyeffects seems to be important.

After running easyeffects from the applications menu, closing it and then opening it with GTK_THEME="Arc-Dark" easyeffects, it will show up with the Adwaida theme again.

[vchernin]

closing it and then opening it with GTK_THEME="Arc-Dark" easyeffects, it will show up with the Adwaida theme again.

That's because when you closed it, it only closed the window, it continues to run in the background. In the preferences page there is a setting "shutdown on window close" which ensures the app exits when closing the window.

[sezanzeb]

Interesting. How do you make the .desktop entry tell the existing process to open the window? Via dbus?

[vchernin]

How do you make the .desktop entry tell the existing process to open the window?

I am not familiar with the exact mechanism of how it "recognizes" the existing process and just opens a window.
But I do know this is indeed all done with D-bus services, which easyeffects uses since it passes --gapplication-service.

[vchernin]

If you want to set GTK_THEME for each launch though, you probably need to change the exec line in the .service file, not the .desktop file.

[wwmm]

However, that also needs the theme to support GTK4 + libadwaita

That is problem one of the most important steps. Themes designed for gtk3 do not work with gtk4 applications