Exactly, what I was looking for. Was about to start developing my own applet if I did not find yours. Small little feedback from initial use: rather than revealing a switch on click, toggle the mode directly on click.

Hello, I use the applet for switching from light to dark and I am delighted. But I have noticed one thing: When selecting which themes to use, I can't select the standard theme for the light mode. I use Debian bookworm and the Cinnamon environment. I can only access the themes that are installed or that are not the default. I cannot explicitly select the Cinnamon theme, for example. I would be glad for an adjustment here, thank you. Best regards Oliver

Would it be possible to execute a bash command on entering/exit the night/day mode? For example, on day mode, switch off keyboard backline and turn it back on night mode.

Hi, Automatically switch mode not working I nedd to press manually everyday! Lmc 21.3

^ not changed

These applet does nice work of auto changing system theme based on time and gives uniform look and feel, however terminal (GNOME terminal) and cursor theme (Light: Bibata-Modern-Ice & Dark: Bibata-Modern-Classic) are changed during this switch, so I made shell script for both terminal and cursor to change according to system theme. ```sh # terminal-theme-switch.sh #!/bin/zsh THEME=$(gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme) if [[ $THEME == *"Dark"* ]]; then dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ < dark-profile.dconf else dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ < light-profile.dconf fi ``` ```sh # cursor-theme-switch.sh #!/bin/zsh current_theme=$(gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme) current_theme=${current_theme//\'/} declare -A cursor_themes cursor_themes=( ["Mint-Y-Blue"]="Bibata-Modern-Ice" ["Mint-Y-Dark-Blue"]="Bibata-Modern-Classic" ) cursor_theme=${cursor_themes[$current_theme]} gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface cursor-theme "$cursor_theme" ``` Add these scripts to crontab entry and desktop autostart entry to switch theme automatically. It would be great to add similar solution to this applet.

Great applet but there is something missing. What I did is I set two different folders of light and dark theme wallpapers. Each of them contains many wallpapers suitable for dark and light mode. Unfotunately, the wallpaper doesn't change. I expect it to change after a min or 2 min or at custom time. But It only picked the first picture from the selected folder and do not change automatically. Rest features are fine. No issues. Just this is the one thing which I desire.

Thanks for this applet, it's fantastic

Agreed with Sudo Shindo, it should be possible to select just 1 image for the background instead of a folder. Or at least make it clearer in the UI that a random background will be selected from that folder.

Thanks for this applet. A question: is there a method to call the applet manually with parameters ? I would like to do it by crontab depending the season, location and sun and to submit the right theme when the PC start. It's a similar question of lobster4all. Thanks.

Thats what I was looking for, thank you very much! Please try to fix the problem others pointed out about the applet not working when PC sleeps

Hello, thank you for this applet. Unfortunately, on LMDE 6 it does not switch according to the set time. I have to switch manually unfortunately. Does anyone have this error too?

Suggestion: Make the background specific/explicit instead of random. Setting up a light/dark wallpaper pair is kind of a hassle because you have to make 2 directories containing only 1 image each. It might be better if you get rid of the "random selection" part of the code so that the wallpaper files are easier to manage for users. It would allow us to have a /wallpapers/sunset dir that contains sunset-dark.png and sunset-light.png instead of /wallpapers/dark/sunset.png and /wallpapers/light/sunset.png and we could even avoid using subdirectories if we wanted to since we could specify the exact image paths.

Thanks for this useful applet! It would be great if the theme switched automatically if my laptop was asleep during transition time. E.g. I set the light mode to start at 6 AM, but I wake up my laptop at 8 AM - currently the theme remains dark from yesterday evening and I have to manually switch to light. Would be great if that happened automatically.

Great applet. One small request - the window border, window control, and desktop themes in ~/.themes can all be selected in the applet, but not the icon themes in ~/.icons (only the icon themes in /usr/share/icons). Are you able to give us access to icon themes in ~/.icons too? Cheers

Excellent applet, the only thing missing is a "next background" command. Since the user can set a wallpaper folder for the theme, which is ideal, the next logical step is to allow the user to manually flip through the backgrounds.

Hello and thank you very much for this. It is one of the best applets out there :-)! Something I noticed similar to appoloin; when e.g. a notebook goes to sleep and wakes up past the scheduled start/end time of the automatic mode switch the change is not fired "again", hence the theme is not switched. Before I found this neat applet I used to simply add some .sh scripts in crontab along shortcuts to fire them manually and had actually the same issue. During my brief fixing research I found this link, maybe it could be useful for you and this applet as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58405459/how-to-set-cronjob-on-wake-up-from-sleep BR

Very useful applet! ...which I just discovered. Its author is also the author of the best desklet: googleCalendar. Thank you very much, @slgobinath

How to use in after downloading?

Thanks a lot.

Works very nicely, thanks! Only thing I'd change is that clicking the applet should instantly change the theme, without opening a menu with just 1 option.

Now Work in Arch Linux perfect !

Arch dont work

Having trouble configuring it now... Any tips?

Please also toggle the libadwaita theme. With gnome migrating to libadwaita, half of the applications don't change their theme

thanx for fixing. doesn't work without ~/.local/share/icons folder on lmde 5 and debian

The auto change doesn't switch theme on resume. If you enter hibernation say on the dark theme and resume after the time for the light theme to be used, the applet doesn't switch.

Hi, still can't access the config menu on Linux Mint 20.3 :(

LMDE 5 doesn't work

Linuxmint 20.3. Can't access configuration menu. On Fedora it works, please, help!

In order to get working, you need to make the folder ~/.local/share/icons, which was missing from a fresh install of Mint. Found by DonLH.

Does nothing on Linuxmint 20.3. Can't access configuration menu either.