better-theme-switcher

An extended re-implementation of GNOME's dark theme switcher

What is this?

This is my own re-implementation of GNOME's dark theme switcher. It operates similarly to theme default theme switcher, but with added support for:

• Wallpaper switching (custom wallpapers)
• Custom cursors
• Custom themes (gradience and legacy gtk-3 themes)
• Shell theme switching
• Terminal profile switching

These features are enabled by default, but can be easily extended to essentially any setting on the system.

How does it work?

This program uses a sort of "snapshot" system that runs ontop of gsettings.

When you want to set the light/dark theme, configure your theme how you like and run the program with either the --setup-light or --setup-dark flags.

This will save the settings specified in targets under either the light or dark theme.

These settings are restored when their respective theme is activated.

Getting set up

When you first run this program, it will fail saying that you need to set up the themes. This is normal.

Configuring targets

To customize what settings this program saves, edit the targets file in $HOME/.config/better-theme-switcher/targets.

Each line corresponds to a property in gsettings. The ones there by default are usually enough to cover most customizations, but you can add/remove whatever you wish.

Creating themes

Next, set up your desktop how you want it to look in it's light/dark theme (wallpaper, gtk theme, cursor, etc). Once you're done, run better-theme-switcher --setup-[dark/light]. This will save your current configuration under them theme you specified. Do this again for the other theme.

Thats it

There really isnt much else to do aside from adding the program to startup if you want.

Installing

Currently the only way to install this program is to build it from it's source. I plan to add it to the AUR soon!

Building from source

Getting the code

Download the code using git

git clone https://github.com/KCGD/better-theme-switcher.git
cd better-theme-switcher

Dependencies

System

Make sure you have nodejs npm and make installed.

Arch:

(as root) pacman -S nodejs npm

Debian / Debian derivatives:

(as root) apt install nodejs npm

NPM

Once in the repo's root, run:

npm i

Building

To build the code, run:

make build

This should make an executable in the Builds folder.

Licensing

This project is free and open source under the GPLv2 license!