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Description
Sync theme with GNOME color-scheme
Latest
gnome-dark-style-0.2.2.0.20250309.73232.tar (.sig), 2025-Mar-09, 20.0 KiB
Maintainer
David Dimagid <davidimagid@gmail.com>
Website
https://github.com/dimagid/gnome-dark-style
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To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.

Full description

1. Description

The gnome-dark-style package automatically synchronizes the Emacs theme with GNOME's color scheme. It allows users to define custom light and dark themes, ensuring a consistent look and feel across the GNOME desktop environment and GNU Emacs.

2. Features

  • Automatically switches between light and dark themes based on GNOME's color scheme.
  • Supports custom light and dark themes.
  • Monitors GNOME's color scheme in real-time and updates the Emacs theme accordingly.

3. Requirements

  • GNOME Shell 47.4 (tested with this version).
  • The gsettings command must be available on your system.

4. Installation

4.1. GNU ELPA package

The package is available as gnome-dark-style. Simply do: 

M-x package-refresh-contents
M-x package-install

4.2. Manual installation

  1. Clone the repository or download the gnome-dark-style.el file.

  2. Add the following to your Emacs configuration file init.el: 

    (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/gnome-dark-style")
(require 'gnome-dark-style)
  3. Customize the light and dark themes using the gnome-light-theme and gnome-dark-theme variables.

5. Configuration

You can customize the following variables:

  • gnome-light-theme: The Emacs theme to use when GNOME's color scheme is set to light.
  • gnome-dark-theme: The Emacs theme to use when GNOME's color scheme is set to dark.
  • gnome-dark-style-sync: Enable or disable synchronization with GNOME's color scheme.

Example configuration with use-package: 

;; Sync Emacs theme with GNOME's color scheme
(use-package gnome-dark-style
  ;; Uncomment and set your preferred themes
  ;; :custom
  ;; (gnome-light-theme 'ef-eagle)  ; default: nil
  ;; (gnome-dark-theme 'ef-owl)     ; default: wombat
  :config
  ;; Set to nil to stop monitoring and disable sync
  (setopt gnome-dark-style-sync t))

6. Usage

Once installed and configured, the package will automatically switch between the specified light and dark themes based on GNOME's color scheme.

7. License

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

8. Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

9. Acknowledgments

  • Thanks to GNU and the FSF for their excellent communities, software and documentation.

Old versions

gnome-dark-style-0.2.1.0.20250308.192802.tar.lz2025-Mar-094.23 KiB
gnome-dark-style-0.1.0.20250307.184114.tar.lz2025-Mar-084.14 KiB