Adwaita Manager

Change the look of Adwaita, with ease

Adwaita Manager (AdwCustomizer) is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.

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Building and Installing

1. Open Terminal
2. Run git clone https://github.com/ArtyIF/AdwCustomizer.git && cd AdwCustomizer
3. Add the gnome-nightly Flatpak repository flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
4. Install the master version of GNOME SDK: flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/master org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/master
5. Run flatpak-builder --install --user --force-clean repo/ com.github.ArtyIF.AdwCustomizer.json

Alternatively, open the project with GNOME Builder, then build and run it.

Setup Tutorial

Libadwaita applications

No additional setup is required for native Libadwaita applications.

For Flatpak Libadwaita applications, you need to override their permissions:

• Run sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0 or
• Use Flatseal and adding xdg-config/gtk-4.0 to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications

Vanilla GTK 4 applications

Use this guide to theme vanilla GTK 4 applications.

GTK 3 applications

• Install and apply the adw-gtk3 theme (don't forget to install the Flatpak package!)
• For Flatpak applications, you need to override their permissions:
  • Run sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0 or
  • Use Flatseal and adding xdg-config/gtk-3.0 to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications

Roadmap

This tool is currently WIP, but it already has a plenty of features and is very usable. Below is the roadmap, where all the checked features are already implemented:

• Customize named colors, either with a color picker or with text
• Explanations for some named colors
• Partial theme preview
• Built-in presets for Adwaita and Adwaita Dark (based on default libadwaita colors)
• Apply changes to libadwaita, GTK4 (with extracted libadwaita theme) and GTK3 (with the adw-gtk3 theme) applications
• Load and create custom presets
• View adw-gtk3's support of variables
• View parsing errors
• Customize palette colors
• Add custom CSS code
• Localization support
• Normalize color variables
• Make the code more secure
• Release on Flathub
• Full theme preview
• Customize GNOME Shell
• Customize GDM
• Customize KvLibadwaita
• Customize Firefox GNOME theme

Contribute

Code

Fork this repository, then create a push request when you're done adding features or fixing bugs.

Localize

The localization project is available on Transifex.

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