[SOLVED] White menu bar in VScodium on i3wm

[frozen linden]

Maybe this is a more general issue, but I don't really have other visual apps installed to test this with.

[frosty plaza]

This is a toggle to use either the native widgets provided by gtk or a custom widget from vscode.

If you want to use the custom style, add this to your settings.json

    "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
    "window.dialogStyle": "custom",

[frozen linden]

Is there a way to set gtk to be always black/dark?

[frosty plaza]

GTK theme support in electron is trash

[frosty plaza]

Yes, you need a dark theme for gtk

However, custom mode would have better consistency with vscode itself.

[frozen linden]

I see. I don't know where this settings.json file is located. It's not in ~/.vscode-oss

[frosty plaza]

press ctrl + , in vscode

, is the comma on your keyboard

[frozen linden]

nice...

[frosty plaza]

Then press this button

[frozen linden]

Found it already, thanks for the tip

Amazing. It is dark now.

[frozen linden]

This is what I have for gtk

[frosty plaza]

This is irrelevant.

Themes are in /usr/share/themes or ~/.local/shre/themes

[frozen linden]

Is this what I'm looking for:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GTK#Dark_theme_variant

[frosty plaza]

This solution will only work if your current theme is a dark variant and for gtk4, if your desktop environment is GNOME.

[frozen linden]

It is not GNOMe, it's i3wm

But I do have the gsettings command available to me

[frosty plaza]

IIRC, this dconf entry only works under GNOME,

So you need to manually configure the theme in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and `~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini

[frozen linden]

the /usr/share/themes/ directory contains Default/ and Emacs/, and Default contains gtk-3.0/ which contains gtk-keys.css

I don't have ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ or gtk-4.0/. I'll add them manually

Pardon, it does contain gtk-3.0

So, settings.ini is empty. I'm looking at the Arch page right now, trying to figure out what to add.