Linux @lemmy.ml jaagruk @mander.xyz 3 mo. ago

GTK based terminal for Wayland?

Actually I am switching to Wayland and Most of apps I use support GTK Theming (Librewolf,Thunderbird,Libreoffice etc).But I cant find any terminal which is based on Gtk so that I can complete this theming. So do you people know of any GTK based Terminal for wayland?

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How much theming does a terminal need? Personally my required features were a server and good font support. Currently I use the foot terminal: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
- I am thinking of something GTK so that Its theme changes when I change GTK Theme 😀.
  
  So is the theming here for the window decorations or the text colour scheme?
Blackbox
- Wayland?
  
  Yes, it works on Wayland. I'd also give GNOME's Console a shot.
- New question
  
  How to change my GTK4 theme. I was using nwg-look but it is not working for Console and Blackbox
  
  Ah, that's because GTK4 and libadwaita severely restricted custom theming. They may be ways around this but I have no idea because I use just adw-gtk3 as my theme so all my apps look uniform on Gnome.
  
  So I guess you'll either search for a way to hack this or just stick to GTK3 apps if you don't want the stock GTK4 look.
  
  It’s not nearly as supported. There are workarounds where you can create a ~/.gtk4 directory and modify CSS yourself, or you can use a program like Gradience to modify the color scheme in an accessible way. Gradience also has community color palettes so if you’re using a popular theme it could just be a matter of loading the preset
Ptyxis, it's a modern, container-friendly, Wayland-friendly GTK-based terminal.
- Not available for nix 🥲
  
  It's available via Flatpak though. It's been a dream to use...very fast, lots of options, and excellent container integration.
  
  nix like in nixos?
  
  three solutions:
  
  enable flatpak and install it from there
  
  package it
  
  ask me to package it
  
  You're going to have to package that yourself or wait for someone else to do it. You can refer another GTK project and make your own package quickly.
gnome terminal
- New question
  
  How to change my GTK4 theme. I was using nwg-look but it is not working for Console and Blackbox
  
  I think you can't change gtk4 theme with gui but you can change it in text editor gtk4 config file is in .config/gtk4.0/
What about the normal GNOME Terminal? Or the new one called Blackbox?
- GTK4. So no way to switch themes easily.
  
  I think the normal GNOME Terminal still uses GTK 3
- Black Box has been out for a while, I think you're thinking of Ptyxis
  
  God damn these guys create a new terminal emulator every day
Tilix https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/
- Crashing when I try to open preferences 🥲
  
  But GTK theming is working. There is some vte issues with my system (Don't know what) but thanks.
  
  https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/manual/vteconfig/
I use Alacritty on Gnome just because it has better window decorations than Kitty.
- I use it, but on wayfire, because I like it more than kitty, though I have to use alacritty with screen, since it doesn't support tabs, which is the only thing I wish alacritty would add, but I can deal with screen OK. What do you mean with window decorations? They look pretty normal to me, like the ones on electron apps now a days...
  
  Gnome refuses to implement Server Side Decorations on Wayland (because... reasons) so applications are forced to draw their own. Kitty's decorations are very bare bones and ugly. Alacritty's decorations match much better with the rest of Gnome.
sakura terminal emulator for me 'cause I can edit color sets in its .config file and then switch between them under the right-click menus.
As other people have commented: why would GTK be so important? A terminal should be a bare window, without any decoration. At least that's what I use: first setting I check in a terminal is "disable window title" or something like that.
- Tabs, https://visor.binaryage.com/ visor mode terminals, integration with desktop themes, OS auth for allowing sudo, (e.g. biometrics). While you may prefer a bare minimum terminal, there’s plenty of valid use cases for a terminal with good integration to the desktop environment.
- So that I can switch theme of most portion of system in a go.
- You're portraying your personal preference as an expected standard.
Guys, TO wants a terminal with dark/light support for the terminal part or switching color scheme with a command.

I guess the simplest for now would be to use tput in your .bahrc/zshrc?
The theme is such a small part of what a terminal can do. I would choose a terminal based on features and confirm it has a theme/colorscheme available that matches your preferences.
- How to u see screen in daytime vs night time.
Sakura terminal
Your gtk theme wouldn't change your terminal colours with the precision that just manually changing the colours would. Terminals only have 8 colour settings you need to set, it's not exactly a crazy undertaking to change your terminal theme separate to your gtk theme
- But just GTK theme based foreground and background colour?

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