Variety not working in dark mode on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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hello update from Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 but it turns out that after updating I have noticed that variety stopped working and no longer shows me my custom backgrounds in dark mode instead it shows me the Jammy Jellyfish main background.

How To Fix Variety Background Problem on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I have solved the problem I never knew that exclusive images for dark mode was a new feature in the end I had to use Variety (for light mode) and Shotwell for dark mode) — EeveeandVulpix2000, Apr 24 '22 at 00:58

Celebre Asm · Answer 1 · 2023-04-07T05:05:34.753

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You need to adjust a bit set_wallpaper script used by variety. Use this command to allow to change wallpapers in dark mode. By the way, since version 0.8.7, variety will do it automatically.

sed -i '/^# Gnome 3, Unity*/a gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri-dark "file://$WP" 2> /dev/null' /home/$USER/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper

The command will search '# Gnome 3, Unity' string in your ~/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper script to add this:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri-dark "file://$WP" 2> /dev/null

edited Apr 07 '23 at 05:05

answered Apr 25 '22 at 20:29

Celebre Asm

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you are hero. Thanks a ton! – mastier Apr 26 '22 at 22:31
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Thanks. Worked like a charm for me on Pop!_OS – Greg Bacchus May 03 '22 at 22:21
this is making my desktop freeze, how do I undo this? – Badjano Aug 15 '22 at 02:36
can someone please tell me how to revert this, it has really effed up my desktop – Badjano Aug 16 '22 at 22:40
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I think it would be really useful, if you could describe what this command actually changes in the script. – Stibu Aug 17 '22 at 06:41
Amazing, thanks for the solution! I got my Variety installed from the official Ubuntu 22.04 repo so it did not work in dark mode out of the box as reported here. – Pablo Adames Apr 11 '23 at 06:02
Haha... after re-installing my OS, and having the same problem, I googled and came across this answer... looking at my previous comment it worked for me before... It's just worked for me again :) Thanks. I'd upvote it again if I could... – Greg Bacchus May 16 '23 at 09:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '23 at 17:00

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Was resolved in https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/releases/tag/0.8.7

So now you just need to install variety from official ppa and everything works out of the box.

answered Mar 14 '23 at 17:00

DarKy

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Variety not working in dark mode on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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