| 11 Jan 2026 |
 linsui | And these apps themselves can listen to the theme, but the window decoration doesn't follow the theme. You can test with localsend. It also has an upstream issue but I'm not sure if it's this issue. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/135390 | 18:11:05 |
 jasi 🏳️⚧️ | This looks like a toolkit issue, they need to respond to the freedesktop portal to follow the theme preference or handle app theming in-app. | 18:13:15 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | GNU Emacs suffers from this as well (even on the wayland port) | 18:13:39 |
| linsui | I can't fix those toolkits. 🤷 It would be great to get them fixed but I won't hold my breathe. But I can get those programs themed immediately. :) | 18:16:04 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | kde doing xdg_decoration also makes this annoying, app developers now think they can just ignore the title bar in design. | 18:16:26 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | But this issue will resolve itself hopefully, maybe document this workaround in the nixos wiki | 18:17:00 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | * | 18:17:07 |
| linsui | And libreoffice has the same problem. IIRC jtojnar said that they can't reproduce the problem but I just test it and it's still not themed without the package. | 18:18:12 |
| linsui | Eventually, maybe... Document is useful but I'm not sure if users can find that. | 18:19:10 |
| linsui | I can open an PR if you point me to the correct position. | 18:19:38 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | Also have you tried setting the adw-gtk3 theme for applications? I'm using that workaround now for apps. | 18:20:37 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | Libreoffice is responding to it at least | 18:21:59 |
| linsui | Currently I have this
"org/gnome/desktop/interface" = {
color-scheme = "prefer-dark";
gtk-theme = "Adwaita-dark";
};
What's the adw-gtk3 theme? Do I need to install it?
| 18:22:05 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | Yes it's pkgs.adw-gtk3 | 18:22:23 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | Just add it to your environment.systemPackages and it will be visible to dconf | 18:22:52 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | "org/gnome/desktop/interface" = {
gtk-theme = "adw-gtk3";
icon-theme = "MoreWaita";
};
I'm using this^
| 18:23:13 |
| linsui | I guess they work in the same way. Those programs don't know about the dark variant. They can only use the theme. | 18:24:51 |
| linsui | So they need a dark theme, which is dark by default. | 18:25:23 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | They really just need to be ported to wayland and/or stop relying on gtk hacks. | 20:35:46 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | tauri being rendered with webkitgtk explains a lot actually. | 20:36:24 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | * | 20:36:32 |
| 12 Jan 2026 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | Another informal polling: Is there anyone here that uses the GNOME Flashback session? | 02:25:54 |
 hexa | is there any reboot required indicator for gnome that integrates with nixos? | 13:45:49 |
| hexa | I kinda need to nudge family members to reboot once in a while | 13:46:01 |
 emily | how do you deploy updates to your family? 🤔 | 16:18:10 |
 André Lima | What is GNOME flashback? | 16:24:06 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback | 18:36:38 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | No there sadly isn't, Debian/Ubuntu handle this by having certain packages create a reboot file in /var/run but there's no unified interface, especially since nixos doesn't install gnome-software by default which has the reboot indicator design. | 18:44:57 |
| hexa | yeah, /run/reboot-required | 18:45:10 |
| jasi 🏳️⚧️ | * No there sadly isn't, Debian/Ubuntu handle this by having certain packages create a reboot file in /var/run when updated/installed but there's no unified interface, especially since nixos doesn't install gnome-software by default which has the reboot indicator design. | 18:45:18 |
