Automatic theme not following system light/dark mode
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When setting the color theme to “Automatic” on Fedora 42, the application does not correctly switch between the designated light and dark themes based on the system’s appearance setting. My expectation is for the app to automatically adjust its theme to match the system’s light/dark mode preference, but this behavior is not currently working.
Linux2025.1.2
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This one might be a Tauri issue. Yaak subscribes to the window theme change from Tauri so perhaps there’s something about your host setup that hits an edge case.
This behavior does work on my Linux test environment, Ubuntu.
Do you have any interest in helping debug/fix the issue?
I've been looking into it and I've implemented a workaround using gsettings to directly monitor the system theme, which handles both initial detection and theme changes.
The changes integrate with Yaak's existing theme system and should properly follow the system's light/dark mode preference. I've created a PR (#210) with the implementation for review and testing.
Hi there @Yohannes Takata, it might not really relevant to this, but I’m having an issue on the same environment as you, just KDE instead of GNOME, may I asked do you use Wayland and install
yaakvia rpm as well?🥹 Same issue in Fedora Linux 43 (Wayland)
version: yaak-2025.9.3-1.x86_64.rpm