Google Chrome System Dark Mode

Question

When I switch Ubuntu 20.04 to dark mode (via gnome-tweak-tool > appearance > Shell > Yaru-dark and the Appearance section of the system app) Google Chrome doesn't seem to think that my OS/System Preference is for a dark theme, as evidenced by the chrome settings section and dev tools being light-themed. My dev tools are set to use a theme based on system preference. I know the enable-force-dark experimental setting exists, but I don't want chrome to try and convert web pages to a dark theme by itself. Is there some sort of setting in dconf or elsewhere that will tell Google Chrome to render it's internal pages with a dark theme?

Solution 1

You must switch Google Chrome to GTK theme (Settings->Appearance->Themes) for make this works.

Solution 2

Run

sudo nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

and set

gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme

to 1.

Comments

[Admin]

You can set Chrome to always start on dark mode by changing it's desktop entry file. See this answer to learn how to do this: askubuntu.com/a/1290268/1025464

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

This is not sufficient to make chrome use the websites' dark themes. There is an open issue in Linux: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=998903. The only way to set dark mode properly as of Chrome 94.0 is to use the --force-dark-mode command line switch.

[Ssh-uunen]

did not worked for me on Pop 21.04 hirsute & GNOME 3.38.3

[Admin]

Check if your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable is set. If yes, use the path $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini as mentioned in the configuration section of the wiki