Discord GNOME Theme

May 2, 2026 · View on GitHub

A GNOME theme for Discord, following the Adwaita style & GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (with whatever the Discord CSS lets me do).

Theme preview

Requirements

  1. Vesktop

    Recommended for enabling the Discord's custom titlebar. Enable with Settings > Vesktop Settings > "Discord Titlebar".

    You can still use something else like BetterDiscord - the theme will work but without the usual GNOME headerbar and with BetterDiscord content unthemed.

  2. Install Discord Adblock

    Removes Nitro elements, as they will look out of place.

  3. Settings > Language > Choose "English (US)"

    This allows for custom icons due to how they are identified in Discord. You may localize the theme, but read the localization note.

  4. Settings > Plugins > Enable "ThemeAttributes"

    This allows for icons in the server settings modal. Optional, does not affect user settings.

Installation

Copy the following into the text box located in Settings > Themes > Online Themes:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ricewind012/discord-gnome-theme/master/gnome.theme.css

If you'd like to configure it, put gnome.theme.css in ~/.config/vesktop/themes. It's still updated automatically.

Configuration

Nitro themes

Nitro theme preview
  1. Go to Settings > Plugins and enable the FakeNitro plugin.
  2. Set corner smoothing to 0.1 in Rounded Window Corners Reborn extension settings.
  3. Set a nitro theme in Settings > Display.

Transparent sidebar

Transparent sidebar preview

  1. Get the Blur my Shell extension

  2. In the extension's settings, go to Pipelines > Manage Effects > Add the "Corner" effect. Click on the effect, set "Radius" to 17.

    The Adwaita window corner radius is 15, but setting it to said number will not fully round them. 17 looks good on all windows.

    If the corners stick out, in Rounded Window Corners Reborn settings, turn up "Corner Smoothing".

  3. In theme's CSS file set --option-transparent-sidebar to true.

Settings used for the screenshot were: radius - 100, brightness - 1.00.


Unsupported list

  • Discord experiments

    I do not work for Discord, so I have no way of knowing if these experiments are getting changed, deprecated, etc.

  • Nitro

    Exceptions — anything accessible with the FakeNitro plugin; it does support nitro themes after all.