Dark mode

• Arch wiki: Dark mode
• Dark mode in Sway
• Gnome dark style preference
• Freedesktop appearance color-scheme key: org.freedesktop.appearance.color-scheme
• System-wide available themes are stored under /usr/share/themes

Tools

• color-scheme-simulator
  • Last update 2022

darkman

• Gitlab
• Implements the FreeDesktop dark mode standard
• Last tag 2023-01
• Arch package
  • Last updated 2023-10
• Docs: Man page
• Contributed example scripts
• Works fine for:
  • Waybar
  • Neovim
  • Kitty
  • Firefox
  • Thunderbird
• To-do:
  • Chromium
• Config: ~/.config/darkman/
• State dir: ~/.cache/darkman/

Install

sudo pacman -S darkman xdg-desktop-portal-gtk gnome-themes-extra
pamac install neovim-remote

Configure

mkdir ~/.local/share/dark-mode.d ~/.local/share/light-mode.d

cd ~/.local/share/dark-mode.d
wget https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman/-/raw/main/examples/dark-mode.d/desktop-notification.sh
wget https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman/-/raw/main/examples/dark-mode.d/gtk3-theme.sh
chmod +x ~/.local/share/dark-mode.d/*.sh

cd ~/.local/share/light-mode.d
wget https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman/-/raw/main/examples/light-mode.d/desktop-notification.sh
wget https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman/-/raw/main/examples/light-mode.d/gtk3-theme.sh
wget https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/darkman/-/raw/main/examples/light-mode.d/neovim-background.sh
chmod +x ~/.local/share/light-mode.d/*.sh

systemctl --user enable --now darkman.service

Disable automatic transition:

• set usegeoclue: false in ~/.config/darkman/config.yaml
• rm ~/.cache/darkman/location.json
• systemctl --user restart darkman.service

Usage

darkman toggle

yin-yang

• GitHub
• Documentation in the wiki
• AUR package
  • Recently updated
• Plugin support
• No way to add simple user scripts ?
• Support for Neovim
• Firefox addon
  • Last updated 2021-11

Application support

Auto-switching applications

• Waybar
• Firefox
  • Addons / Themes: System theme - auto
  • Settings / Language and Appearance / Website appearance: Automatic
  • Settings / Language and Appearance / Colors
    • [x] Use system colors
    • Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above: Only with high contrast themes
• Thunderbird
  • Addons / Themes: System theme - auto

Application that need manual intervention

• Kitty
• Neovim: Using neovim-remote

Websites

Already implemented auto-switching

• GitHub
• mastodon.social

Still no auto-switching

• Gitlab