# Any Plasma hack/fix to LibAdwaita look? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** plasma, theme\ **Created:** [July 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946 "2023-07-15T12:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/1 "2023-07-15T12:09:38Z")
LibAdwaita locks any attempt to customize it because of that ugly embedded Adwaita theme. Are there any hack to fix the appearance of the LibAdwaita based apps to look more beautiful ? ![image338](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8d671c9574eae32ab63aa57815aae19026ddcfef.png) ---
**Author:** ![aylamz](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/aylamz/32/32632_2.png) [@aylamz](https://discuss.kde.org/u/aylamz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/2 "2023-07-15T14:35:42Z")
You can use [Gradience](https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience) to change the color scheme for libadwaita apps. There is a Breeze Dark preset. ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/3 "2023-07-15T20:22:57Z")
I reinstalled it two times and it doesn’t apply the selected preset color to EasyEffects, even Gradience resets its color when it reopens. ---
**Author:** ![ngraham](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/ngraham/32/64_2.png) [@ngraham](https://discuss.kde.org/u/ngraham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/4 "2023-07-15T21:52:31Z")
The GNOME developers are quite attached to their Libadwaita style and its intentional non-themability. I think if it’s something you’re not a fan of, it’s time to vote with your mouse and keyboard and not use Libadwaita apps! ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/5 "2023-07-15T22:31:16Z")
Some apps like EasyEffects have no alternative, so we have no choice but to continue suffering from it. ---
**Author:** ![aylamz](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/aylamz/32/32632_2.png) [@aylamz](https://discuss.kde.org/u/aylamz)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/6 "2023-07-16T05:50:20Z")
Did you click the “Apply” button in top-left corner and re-login after selecting the preset? ---
**Author:** ![sstarr-squidfx](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/sstarr-squidfx/32/2102_2.png) [@sstarr-squidfx](https://discuss.kde.org/u/sstarr-squidfx)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/7 "2023-07-21T09:23:48Z")
If your looking for theme consistency you can use [GitHub - FedoraQt/adwaita-qt: A style to bend Qt applications to look like they belong into GNOME Shell](https://github.com/FedoraQt/adwaita-qt) and make all your qt apps use the adwaita theme. Theming between Qt and Gtk has been a issue for as long as Kde and Gnome have existed. ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/8 "2023-07-21T11:28:22Z")
I want the opposite, I can’t stand that LibAdwaita based apps’ look. ---
**Author:** ![fusionfuture](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/fusionfuture/32/128_2.png) [@fusionfuture](https://discuss.kde.org/u/fusionfuture)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/9 "2023-07-22T02:01:07Z")
`GTK_THEME=Breeze gnome-calculator` ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/10 "2023-07-22T23:13:16Z")
Well, setting that env var seems to make the apps look much worse than LibAdwaita 😂 ![Screenshot_20230723_000949](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/50d630f7cc8cd4ba644b004d987fcc95d627beeb.png) ![Screenshot_20230723_000933](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c3670af1de3d66cfa92d9d325588624e459e8cfa.png) ![Screenshot_20230723_001216](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/eb498524b2d0194fc685b289c3e0809371a98f65.png) ---
**Author:** ![fusionfuture](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/fusionfuture/32/128_2.png) [@fusionfuture](https://discuss.kde.org/u/fusionfuture)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/11 "2023-07-23T01:35:25Z")
Because breeze-gtk hasn’t been ported to adapt to the new elements in libadwaita. If someone is interested they can contribute to do the work. ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/12 "2023-10-14T10:03:56Z")
Does Plasma 6 have any work in progress concerning GTK4 and LibAdwaita theming ? ---
**Author:** ![johnandmegh](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/johnandmegh/32/767_2.png) [@johnandmegh](https://discuss.kde.org/u/johnandmegh)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/13 "2023-10-14T17:50:50Z")
At the end of the day, a desktop environment can’t fundamentally force a change to the layout and design of an application. I agree that I prefer the KDE/Breeze/Qt-based style…but there are still apps I use (e.g. GNOME Boxes) that have the GNOME/Adwaita/GTK-based styling, and those are the apps where the functionality makes it worth it. If you really want to dig in to the topic of app design and layout, perhaps you could look at what would be necessary to create a KDE-style interface for your “must-have” LibAdwaita apps? ---
**Author:** ![Echoa](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/echoa/32/3746_2.png) [@Echoa](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Echoa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/14 "2023-10-14T18:27:22Z")
As has been said this is largely intentional. While its somewhat possible to theme libadwaita applications I’ve found it frequently just breaks their themeing entirely. They don’t even theme well on GNOME and the folks over there have no intentions AFAIK of making sure things look OK with anything but default Adwaita. My recommendation is if you don’t have an alternative option is to just learn to deal with it for that specific application. I’ve gone the route of avoiding gtk4 applications personally and configuring pipewire by hand Pipewire has pretty good documentation and configuring it by hand isn’t too difficult depending on the complexity of what you do. ---
**Author:** ![Echoa](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/echoa/32/3746_2.png) [@Echoa](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Echoa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/15 "2023-10-14T18:52:27Z")
If you would like to learn more in regards to configuring things without easy effects I have some guides on some bits I’ve done with pipewire. > **[Echoa / Pipewire-Guides · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/echoa/pipewire-guides)** > > GitLab.com You can look there for some examples More can be found here > **[Home · Wiki · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/home)** > > Multimedia processing graphs ---
**Author:** ![medin](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/medin/32/2437_2.png) [@medin](https://discuss.kde.org/u/medin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/16 "2023-10-14T19:05:40Z")
I’m using a preset for my earbuds, it includes: Limiter + Convolver +Equalizer + Bass Enhancer + Compressor + Crossfeed, and it gives more enhanced output for my case, I tried to do it via pipewire filter chains but converting all those EasyEffects nodes needs a lot of digging. ---
**Author:** ![Echoa](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/echoa/32/3746_2.png) [@Echoa](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Echoa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/17 "2023-10-14T19:08:18Z")
The hardest part is the plugins IMO. You need to know what the names and ranges for input values are. Ladspa plugins have a tool for doing that but idk about VSTs and others. 🤷‍♂️ Once you know how the plugin works the config files are fairly simple ---
**Author:** ![Echoa](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/echoa/32/3746_2.png) [@Echoa](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Echoa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/18 "2023-10-14T19:37:54Z")
@medin you might be able to modify the normalize audio configuration in my repo and just add the needed plugins to the filter chain. It uses ladpsa plugins but any supported by PW should work in a similar manner ---
**Author:** ![rokejulianlockhart](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/rokejulianlockhart/32/29718_2.png) [@rokejulianlockhart](https://discuss.kde.org/u/rokejulianlockhart)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/19 "2024-05-06T13:23:35Z")
> [@fusionfuture](#): > > _Because_ `breeze-gtk` hasn’t been ported to adapt to the new elements in `libadwaita`. If someone is interested, they can contribute to do the work. @fusionfuture, so it’s not an infeasible endeavour? > [@medin](#): > > Does Plasma 6 have any work in progress concerning GTK4 and LibAdwaita theming ? @medin, if you find an existent issue for it, let me know, if you would. * * * > [@sstarr-squidfx](#): > > If you’re looking for theme consistency, you can use [adwaita-qt/README.md at 0a774368916def5c9889de50f3323dec11de781e · FedoraQt/adwaita-qt · GitHub](https://github.com/FedoraQt/adwaita-qt/blob/0a774368916def5c9889de50f3323dec11de781e/README.md#adwaita-qt) and make all your qt apps use the Adwaita theme. @sstarr-squidfx, unfortunately, per [Update README with information about the project not being maintained… · FedoraQt/adwaita-qt@0a77436 · GitHub](https://github.com/FedoraQt/adwaita-qt/commit/0a774368916def5c9889de50f3323dec11de781e#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R4) > Adwaita-qt project is unmaintained a no longer actively developed. which is a shame, considering how promising [its examples](https://github.com/FedoraQt/adwaita-qt/blob/0a774368916def5c9889de50f3323dec11de781e/README.md?plain=1#L10-L20) appear: > ![image](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/78ab44995eeb37cd7844ea7663ae7195259f065e.png) ![image](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e68ff1a9ee62967cad2363191d48a32c366a3379.png) ![image](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d4804f71621fea701bda3d5f3da1cb509a840a22.png) ![image](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e9272858be8833dd255b113e4ec12e1cc9407b0c.png) I’ll just subscribe to releases I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![player\_one](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/player_one/32/5919_2.png) [@player\_one](https://discuss.kde.org/u/player_one)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/any-plasma-hack-fix-to-libadwaita-look/2946/20 "2024-07-30T21:12:29Z")
Check this. I find this very beutiful, but it’s only for Breeze Dark > **[GitHub - MrCompoopter/Libadwaita-Breeze-Dark: A fix of Breeze Dark GTK4 theme...](https://github.com/MrCompoopter/Libadwaita-Breeze-Dark)** > > A fix of Breeze Dark GTK4 theme made for better compatibility with Flatpak Libadwaita applications - MrCompoopter/Libadwaita-Breeze-Dark ![1](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9411b8f81b4e3b4b03f9d7c5b030c80c2ef1df74.jpeg)