Rewaita

Rewaita brings a fresh look to Adwaita apps using popular color schemes.

⬇️ Installation

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*The AUR, Zypper, and Nix packages are maintained by third-party developers, and are not tested in upstream production. Use with caution!!!

The Flatpak version is the only officially supported format and therefore is recommended for the best experience.

Flatpak:

flatpak install io.github.swordpuffin.rewaita

AUR

Using yay

yay -S rewaita

Using paru

paru -S rewaita

OpenSUSE

# Tumbleweed
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ericfrs/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:ericfrs.repo
# Slowroll
sudo zypper ar -cfp 90 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ericfrs/openSUSE_Slowroll/home:ericfrs.repo

sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper in rewaita

NixOS

nix-shell -p rewaita

✅ Permissions

Allow Flatpak to edit GTK3/4 themes

System installs (default):

sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:rw
sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0:rw

User installs

flatpak --user override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:rw
flatpak --user override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0:rw

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🐛 Known Bugs

Theme did not go away after Rewaita was deleted:

Run:

rm ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
rm -rf ~/.config/gtk-3.0/assets
rm ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css

Gnome Shell theme is not generating:

Update Rewaita to v1.0.9 or greater. Or:

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/themes

GTK-3.0 or GTK-4.0 theme is not generating:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0 && mkdir -p $HOME/.config/gtk-4.0

Autostart file is not generating:

This error message would show when running Rewaita.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/share/rewaita/rewaita/main.py", line 124, in on_background_response with open(os.path.join(GLib.getenv("HOME"), ".config", "autostart", "rewaita.desktop"), "w") as file: ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/(user)/.config/autostart/rewaita.desktop'

mkdir $HOME/.config/autostart

Application window opens but is empty:

1. Flatpak (pre-v1.0.9)

Run:

rm ~/.var/app/io.github.swordpuffin.rewaita/data/prefs.json

2. AUR

See upstream bug

Install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with:

sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Then reboot.

🤝 Contributing

Flatpak

Run the following commands in a terminal:

(Make a folder named Projects in your home directory if it doesn't already exist)

cd Projects
git clone https://github.com/SwordPuffin/Rewaita

Then, in Builder you can add it to your projects.

AUR, OpenSUSE, or NixOS

Please contact the maintainers for instuctions, they are not directly affiliated with any upstream project developer(s).
Any serious issues should be brought up here, but please indicate you are running a third-party build.

AUR maintainer: Mark Wagie
OpenSUSE maintainer: ericfs
NixOS maintainer: Seth Flynn

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License

This program 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.