Best way to make Synaptic use Dark Breeze theme?

[Xeno Idaltu]

Synaptic opens as Root, it's default white theme is too bright to read.
What's the best way to make Synaptic use a Dark Theme when opening as Root?

[NFT5]

You're still using KDE?

Settings > System Settings > Appearance > Application Style > Gnome Application Style (GTK)

[Xeno Idaltu]

That only changes GTK themes when they are in normal use.
When applications require Root Authentication before opening they use KDE's default GTK theme.

I'm assuming maybe copy/past a file in /root

[NFT5]

Of course.

The first thing I do when setting up a new installation is give myself sudo privileges.

As root:

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adduser [username] sudo

So I run Synaptic, and other programs like GParted, with sudo privileges, not as root. This way the windows follow my selected theme(s). There is no difference in what I can do this way versus running as root.

[Xeno Idaltu]

1) On installation I added my username to sudo.
Two different passwords: Root and username/Sudo

2) SU vs Sudo & Polkit vs Kdesu:
Synaptic asks for SU password for Authentication. (Polkit-KDE Authentication)
When Mounting a Hard Drive using Dolphin Manager it asks for SU Password. Polkit-KDE Authentication)
KDE Partition Manager asks for SU (Kdesu) [freezes]
Muon/Discovery ask for Sudo password when installing/uinstalling packages. (Polkit-KDE Authentication)
Muon/Discovery ask for SU when trying to configure Sources Lists (Kdesu) [freezes]

3) To solve the freezing I created file "kdesurc" on $HOME/.config:
Now I can open KDE Partition using Sudo
But is this safe from a security point? It is still using Kdesu.
Shouldn't all the GUI on KDE open using Polkit or any other alternative?


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# Going back to Synaptic on Root Dark Theme:

Are you using KDE?
Because what I think I read is that you added yourself to Sudo, and when opening Synaptic you will get Synaptic using the normal GTK Theme. Which is not happening in my case.
Even if I open KDE Partition Manager using Kdesu with Sudo privileges, I will get KDE Parition Manager with the default QT Colorscheme.

So far the easiest way I know is linking Kdesu to /usr/bin and then opening KSystemSettings off the terminal:

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kdesu systemsettings5 

KDE System Settings will open in Root Mode:
From there I'll just go to the GTK/QT colortheme modules and click apply on one of the installed themes.
I will then restart an the colorshemes should be there.
I won't have to worry about manually creating directories/files on /root because they have already been automatically done.

When the old version of kdesu was on our repos, this was the way I would do it.

[stevepusser]

Have you been able to find where kdesu is located on your system? If not, install mlocate, run "updatedb" as root or with sudo, then run "locate kdesu" after it finishes. It should then work if you invoke kdesu with its full path.

[Xeno Idaltu]

It's on:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu

I wouldn't mind using the default white themes but when I have everything using dark, even the browser it hurts our eyes.
I could use the terminal for almost everything but since I'm still learning it is helpful having GUIs to guide me around. Once I learn enough I almost never use them that much.

[stevepusser]

It's on:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu

I wouldn't mind using the default white themes but when I have everything using dark, even the browser it hurts our eyes.
I could use the terminal for almost everything but since I'm still learning it is helpful having GUIs to guide me around. Once I learn enough I almost never use them that much.

What happens when you run in the terminal:

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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu systemsettings5

Doesn't it run the settings app as root?

[wizard10000]

You could also use sudo -H or sudo -i to run systemsettings5.

[NFT5]

Are you using KDE?
Because what I think I read is that you added yourself to Sudo, and when opening Synaptic you will get Synaptic using the normal GTK Theme. Which is not happening in my case.

[oddyolynx]

install gtk-chtheme
then when you open settings and apply the GTK theme it will apply

I was able to get Adwaita-dark to work