[GNC] GnuCash 5.1 not reflecting dark mode of Ubuntu 24.04

[David Cousens]

Dark mode works fine with GC5.10 on Linux Mint 22.1 as long as you turn
the Register preference for the GnuCash colours off in the preference
dialogue. What exactly. I don't recall any problems with dark themes
when I was using GC5.1 so it may be something unique to Ubuntu 24.04

David Cousens


On Mon, 2025-02-03 at 18:16 +0000, Indiana via gnucash-user wrote:
> Thank you David.
> I've spent about 8 hours sifting though posts and have yet to find
> anything that works. I think it is time to cut my losses and research
> how to convert GnuCash back to the previous version with the dark
> mode working. My old eyes can't take the glare.
> 
> Gividen
> 
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> On Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 11:48 AM,
> sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am referring to that setting, yes.
> > I am not using GnuCash in Linux, and I don't fiddle with the
> > display settings, so my advice must be taken with many pounds of
> > salt.
> > As I understand, you must modify the appropriate CSS entities to
> > change the appearance in GnuCash. There are many discussions about
> > this in the list archives that might help you further down the
> > rabbit hole.
> > David T.
> > On Feb 3, 2025, at 4:10 PM, Indiana <gividen at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thank you for the reply.
> > > Are you referring to the "Use GnuCash built-in color theme?"
> > > Toggling this feature on and off appears to only effect the
> > > individual entries.
> > > Edit>Preferences>Register and the option is under Graphics. Is
> > > there another setting I should be looking at?
> > > Here is a 20 second video of the results of me toggling this
> > > feature on and off.
> > > https://rumble.com/v6ggep4-gnucash-5.1-does-not-reflect-dark-theme-in-ubuntu-24.04.html
> > > 
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> > > On Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 at 11:08 PM,
> > > sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There is a setting in GnuCash to allow other colors than the
> > > > GnuCash default in the register. So you have this setting
> > > > properly set?
> > > > 
> > > > David T.
> > > > On Feb 3, 2025, at 4:30 AM, Indiana via gnucash-user
> > > > <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I am using GnuCash 5.1 on Ubuntu 24.04.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have selected dark mode in Ubuntu and it is not reflected
> > > > > in GnuCash. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
> > > > > 
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