[SOLVED] GTK 3.0 themes not applying to GNOME 46

[modern marsh]

Made this channel after a short discussion in #quick-questions

I used the archinstall script to speed up the process.

When applying a gtk theme it alters third party windows but none that came with the installation. Nor does it change the overall look of the desktop.

@gentle wharf here is the screenshot you asked for, it appears $HOME simply leads to ~/ so it doesnt really do anything for me?

could try as root

[gentle wharf]

@modern marsh gtk themes only apply to gtk applications like dolphin, virt-manager, etc and $HOME is a more posix compliant way to point to the users home directory

[modern marsh]

💀 wait hold on

the buttons changed

we're getting somewhere haha

[gentle wharf]

dont do that

[modern marsh]

fair enough

[gentle wharf]

that command will just overwrite the dir with the same files

[modern marsh]

will it tho?

wait

[gentle wharf]

you are copying the same files to the same directory the original files were in

[modern marsh]

yeah

[gentle wharf]

why are you doing that?

[modern marsh]

idk, i thought you suggested $HOME instead of ~/

i mustve misunderstood

[gentle wharf]

^

gtk themes only apply to gtk applications btw.

[modern marsh]

i see now

i genuinely think most of it has been solved now, so thats pretty neat

[gentle wharf]

... solved

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[gentle wharf]

@modern marsh

[modern marsh]

yeye

uhh

got it