I’ve recently switched to Gnome from Mate on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. I am finding that the “Files” application suddenly will not respect a dark theme. It had been working up until about a week ago. Other GTK applications respect it fine, but “Files” appears stuck. I have attempted to use gnome-tweak to set the “Legacy Applications” theme to “Yaru-Purple-Dark” but to no avail. Is there a trick to getting Files to respect a dark theme?
Is this a fresh install or did you just installed GNOME manually?
This was originally an “Ubuntu Mate” install that I converted to gnome. It is 24.04 LTS as a supported release for the System76 PPA for drivers.
I don’t think this is a good solution, but I got around it by installing the “user-theme” extension and setting the value I wanted:
gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme\@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'Yaru-viridian-dark'
My guess would be that some package is missing, but then it wouldnt explain why other apps work just fine. The only thing i can recommend is to make a new user and try to see if it works there (without the extension).