A GNOME extension to automatically switch themes depending on the time of the day
- Customize your day/night GTK & GNOME Shell themes
- Run custom commands when day/night comes
- Tweak when the day/night change happen
- Edit how often the extension should look for the day/night change (Advanced)
- Changing the GTK/GNOME Shell theme the usual during the daytime way will only
set it for the day state and won't change it for the night state (same with
changing it during the night state), use
adnts's preferences panel instead - GNOME Shell themes are only supported if the User Themes extension is installed and enabled and if GNOME Shell's version is 3.34 or later
- 24h format only in the preferences
- There is no guarantee that the day/night commands are ran only once during a
full day:
- Re-enabling the extension will re-run the command for the current state
- If several state changes happen quickly enough, it is possible that the command will be ran several times in parallel: if that's a problem you should move your commands to a script and watch for other instances of that script when it is started
Clone this repo and run path/to/repo/install.sh path/to/install/dir from
anywhere on your system to create the [email protected] sub-directory and copy
the required files into it
The path/to/install/dir parameter defaults to
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions, the default user path where GNOME
searches for extensions
E.g. user installation:
git clone https://github.com/Darazaki/AutoDayNightThemeSwitch adnts
adnts/install.shE.g. root installation:
git clone https://github.com/Darazaki/AutoDayNightThemeSwitch adnts
sudo adnts/install.sh /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensionsAfter that, re-login then configure and enable the extension from GNOME Tweaks or with:
gnome-extensions prefs [email protected]
gnome-extensions enable [email protected]Once enabled your GTK theme will be overridden with the ones specified in
adnts's preferences panel so make sure to change your themes there
Leave a GNOME Shell theme field blank to use the default one
# Add `sudo` if needed
rm -rf path/to/install/dir/[email protected]Then re-login to make sure GNOME unloaded the extension
If you're unhappy with this extension, you might want to take a look at some alternatives:
- Night Theme Switcher by rmnvgr
Automatically toggle your light and dark GTK and GNOME Shell theme variants, switch backgrounds and launch custom commands at sunset and sunrise
- Dark Mode Switcher by lossurdo
Switch GNOME 3 theme to Dark Mode and back (this version supports only Adwaita and Adwaita-dark)
This project uses the GPLv3 license (see: LICENSE.txt)
Every kind of contribution is welcome!
If you want something to be changed, please open an issue or a PR and I'll take a look at your suggestions ASAP
Any contribution will be published under the same licensing terms indicated previously