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GTK3 theme is light when dark mode is chosen

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#47 opened on Jun 9, 2025

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Description

The GTK3 theme becomes light when I want to prefer dark for my GTK4 and libAdwaita apps. The GTK4 theme works fine with dark mode and setting the preference to light fixes GTK3 apps but makes libadwaita apps light mode and makes some text black and less readable for GTK4. I mainly use GTK4 and libAdwaita apps to combat this but I would much appreciate if this got fixed, thanks1

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Research direction
Examine the GTK3 theme files, specifically where color variables are defined for light and dark modes, and check if the dark mode selection is being applied correctly.
Tech stack
css
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desktop
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2
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