How to enable system theme for Firefox?

callyral, 3 months ago

I have this in my config and I use Hyprland:

<span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  dconf.settings = {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "org/gnome/desktop/interface" = {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      color-scheme = "prefer-dark";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    };
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  };
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

0xCAFE, 3 months ago

Thank you for the comment, this is not what I’m looking for however. I want a) a dynamic system theme (I already can manually change it to “dark”) which I use a Gnome extension for and b) that Firefox follows the system theme.

algernon, 4 months ago

Works out of the box here, NixOS 23.11 / GNOME 45 / X11, so I suspect this might be either a Wayland or Sway problem.

When I switch to dark mode in GNOME, both Firefox’s UI, and the sites that support dark mode, switch.

0xCAFE, 4 months ago

Hm, thanks for sharing. Maybe a clean install will sort out the issue. Should try that when I’ll have some time.

algernon, 4 months ago

I would suggest trying with Wayland + GNOME, using GNOME’s default WM, rather than sway. If that works, and sway doesn’t, then the issue is somewhere between GNOME and Sway. That should help narrow things down.

0xCAFE, 3 months ago

I removed an environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = “sway”; (which I added long ago from some tutorial) and it solved the issue. Thank you for your input! :)