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Dark mode not working in GTK4 apps (like Nautilus) on Gnome 46
I am absolutely stumped and hoping someone can help me. I'm on Gnome 46, kernel 6.8, Mesa 24
When running in Wayland, dark mode works without any issue. But unfortunately, xwayland is throwing up some issues with resized game windows and mouse captures only working in the upper left quadrant of the screen. So I switched over to "Gnome on Xorg".
Dark mode works for apps like Firefox, but none of my GTK4 apps change from light-to-dark.
I've reset my dconf using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
and I've deleted gtk-4.0, gtk-3.0 folders from .config, I've tried to delete every file or folder in .config .local that may interfere with this, but no luck.
Over on Reddit, someone recommended installing gnome-themes-extra
which has been installed on my system for a long while. Reinstalled, but made no difference.
I created a separate user and logged in. Everything works without a problem (X11 or Wayland). So there's definitely something in my current user folder not working.
The bizarre thin