5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working

DoctorG

The GTK setting in internal settings page is really a nice fix.
One of these hidden gems in Vivaldi.

scottytrees

@mib2berlin said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

@scottytrees
Hm, no idea why it is not working for you.
There is also
vivaldi://flags/#enable-force-dark
but this is for content if I understand this correctly.

Cheers, mib

Unfortunately no, I tried that too, but sadly that did not fix it. After 5.6 update, when Vivaldi boots up, it first opens an all white window for about 1 second, then shows all black (with vivaldi logo), then loads my default home page. This all happens in about 3-5 seconds. Before the 5.6 update, when I booted up Vivaldi it would display an all black area in the window before taking a few seconds to load in Vivaldi and my default home page. My guess is this white issue starts at teh very beginning as soon as Vivaldi is loaded up.

Zalex108

@scottytrees

Hi,
It happens here as well on Windows but since some long, since 5.5 I guess.

But I mostly use Snap and maybe there's the need to a Profile refresh since a couple of years.

Will check on a Clean Profile, though there was the bunch of Tabs delaying the startup.

scottytrees

@Zalex108 Yeah this happens on the .deb file version on ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but appreciate your reply, hope it can get fixed in the future, still happy to use Vivaldi of course

secant

5.6.2867.40 one day after previous update. GTK setting for dark theme broken again. And address bar drop down menu still completely broken. nothing gets added there except searches (the exact thing i DON'T want there, but haven't figured out how to disable except manually deleting all history containing search engine url)

but no other url, manually typed, from bookmarks or from history is added there.

This is getting annoying. Why are all these errors is 'stable' releases? They should be in snapshots. There a REASON i use the stable repo's.

EDIT, well today's update make everything white again. To fix, switch back from GTK to classic in chrome://settings. Restart. Then switch from classic to GTK. Restart. With 3 profiles or more that's a lovely way to spend your time.

With the address bar drop down i mean the little arrow on the right, which i use all the time to select the pages i most frequently visit. In one profile it contains nothing except typed search history, in another profile it's just greyed out, regardless of any settings. I have settings for it to include Bookmarks, Frequently visited pages, Browser history.

ZelosXT

The chrome://settings fixed almost everything for me but when I highlight links the context preview is still light (white background with black text). I can live with it for now since I mostly use the context menu and vivialdi button more often. Hopefully they can fix it.

iomari

@garfield1022 worked for me after changing chrome://settings to GTK and restarting

roman_x

@mib2berlin That was driving me crazy - thank you!

Riztard

@iomari said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

worked for me after changing chrome://settings to GTK and restarting

did this and now its working, thanks

telliott

I seem to be in perpetual newbie mode with Fedora KDE but overall, I'm MUCH happier using Linux than Windows but once I got it set up and working, I spend more time using it than configuring it.

Vivaldi NEEDS a dark mode toggle for menus, etc in theme settings but the GTK setting addresses Gnome display settings but since I use Plasma, I have to go to a special place to set the GTK theme. In Plasma, go to Settings/Appearance/Application Style and click on "Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style" at the bottom. Since Linux is fragmented, you HAVE to be comfortable doing this sort of thing even though it seems to be a real pain.

Any idea if a dark mode toggle will be added to theme settings? There is a place to specify a theme for dark and light mode but NO WAY to tell the dark theme to enable dark mode.

AntraX666

Switching to GTK solved the issue with the menus on Gnome Fedora but websites still detect system mode as white instead dark (I dont have anything set to light mode).

Is there any workaround so sites use their dark version instead white (google, github...)?
Dont want to use vivaldi://flags/#enable-force-dark as it doesnt work ideally.

Firefox is behaving correctly, Vivaldi as above. I am new to Fedora and playing with it just second day and trying to adjust things to my liking (thorny path but progressing :D).

DoctorG

@AntraX666 said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

but websites still detect system mode as white instead dark

That si a bug that Vivaldi does not use the darkmode of Linux Desktop for websites

Bug VB-71802 "Vivaldi is not honoring dark-mode on Ubuntu 20.04.1 (prefers-color-scheme)" - Confirmed, i updated for 5.8.

You can force Vivaldi to simulate dark mode:
open vivaldi://flags/#enable-force-dark and try the values from drop-down (need browser restarts).

AntraX666

@DoctorG Thanks for clarification, will wait for fix and switch the color of sites manually to dark mode (most of them have button or settings somewhere). The forced dark mode inversion is too aggressive for my liking.

AntraX666

Latest Vivaldi and Vivaldi still not honoring dark mode on Fedora.

6.0.2979.15 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)

DoctorG

@AntraX666 Force dark theme of website is something different from dark Vivaldi UI, the latter can be set in chrome://settings with GTK mode.

AntraX666

@DoctorG I am talking about this:

System set as dark but google sees it as light.

In FF

Excuse the languge, one is my native and other one is from geo which is for some reason France...

DoctorG

@AntraX666 Open in Vivaldi chrome://settings , in Settings search field type GTK, hit the GTK button in settings page, close Settings. Restart Vivaldi.
Now Vivaldi gets the same darkness in UI as your Desktop.

AntraX666

I know and that was working on 5.6 too, but I am talking about sites like google or github are generated in light mode because Vivaldi is telling them the system theme is light and not dark.
VB-71802 is still present in Vivaldi 6.

@DoctorG said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

@AntraX666 said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

but websites still detect system mode as white instead dark

That si a bug that Vivaldi does not use the darkmode of Linux Desktop for websites

Bug VB-71802 "Vivaldi is not honoring dark-mode on Ubuntu 20.04.1 (prefers-color-scheme)" - Confirmed, i updated for 5.8.

You can force Vivaldi to simulate dark mode:
open vivaldi://flags/#enable-force-dark and try the values from drop-down (need browser restarts).

DoctorG

@AntraX666 Do not mix issues, that is a different issue with prefers-color-scheme of websites (Yes, VB-71802, still unfixed.), has nothing to do with Dark Mode of desktop.

DoctorG

@AntraX666
@DoctorG said in 5.6 | Dark theme on menu not working:

issue with prefers-color-scheme

Is on Linux Debian/Ubuntu too with Chromium 112 and Chrome 112, too. Bad Google devs and Vivaldi inherited bad code/can not fix.
Chromium bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=998903
And the Chromium devs wont add it to Chromium 113 yet. WT)?!"/"&"§%!

Please, if you need to discuss on issue with prefers-color-scheme these see these threads: