Oledwaita

A darkest version of the default Adwaita gnome-shell theme for Gnome 48, clone of the Darkwaita theme.

Note

Updated for Gnome 48 Bengaluru 🎉

This was created by adding an offset to some of the gray colors in the original theme. Absolutely nothing else has been modified. The gnome-shell folder contains the modified theme (gnome-shell.css) and the unmodified theme (gnome-shell.css.original) which can easily be compared to see what has been changed.

Extensions worth using:

Original author suggests turning off "Customize the dash color" in the dash-to-dock settings "if you want it to match the Darkwaita theme", however Customize the dash color option with pure black works well too, just tweak the opacity to your liking.

• Dash to Dock, extension
• Blur my Shell, extension

Installation

1. Clone this repository into ~/.local/share/themes.

2. Select Oledwaita as the shell theme in gnome-tweaks.

3. Copy gtk.css to ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css.

4. Restart Gnome Shell / log out and log back in.

Screenshots

This is how Oled will look.

This is the Darkwaita theme in action.

This is the original Adwaita theme (Gnome 48). Gray color looks washed out.

Getting the unmodified Gnome 48 Adwaita gnome-shell theme

If you are running Gnome 48, do:

mkdir /tmp/Adwaita && cd /tmp/Adwaita
cp /usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource .
for FILE in `gresource list gnome-shell-theme.gresource`; do gresource extract gnome-shell-theme.gresource $FILE > $(basename -- "$FILE"); done