Adwaita Colors Home

Official companion GNOME Shell extension for the Adwaita Colors icon theme. Watches your GNOME accent color setting and switches the active icon theme variant (Adwaita-blue, Adwaita-teal, etc.) to match.

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Features

• Auto-sync: icon theme follows your GNOME accent color instantly (GNOME 47+)
• Manual picker: choose any of the 10 color variants when auto-sync is off
• Install / Update: download and install Adwaita Colors directly from GitHub, no terminal needed
• Panel indicator: optional colored dot in the top bar with a one-click color switcher
• MoreWaita integration: patch and unpatch index.theme files to insert MoreWaita into the inheritance chain

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Requirements

• GNOME Shell 47 or newer
• Adwaita Colors icon theme (the extension can install it for you)

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Installation

Search for Adwaita Colors Home on extensions.gnome.org, or install manually:

git clone https://github.com/dpejoh/Adwaita-Colors-Home adwaita-colors-home@dpejoh
cp -r adwaita-colors-home@dpejoh ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/adwaita-colors-home@dpejoh/schemas/

Log out and back then run

gnome-extensions enable adwaita-colors-home@dpejoh

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MoreWaita Integration

If MoreWaita is installed, the Installation tab shows a section for patching. It inserts MoreWaita at the front of the inheritance chain in every Adwaita Colors index.theme file:

# Before
Inherits=Adwaita,AdwaitaLegacy,hicolor

# After
Inherits=MoreWaita,Adwaita,AdwaitaLegacy,hicolor

This means icons not covered by Adwaita Colors fall through to MoreWaita before reaching stock Adwaita. The patch is reversible from the same section. For themes installed under /usr/share/icons or /var/usrlocal/share/icons, the extension invokes pkexec automatically so you are not prompted to use a terminal.

If MoreWaita is not installed, the section shows a link to its repository instead.

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Conflict with auto-adwaita-colors

Running auto-adwaita-colors@celiopy alongside this extension causes both to write org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme on every accent color change, with unpredictable results. The extension detects this on startup and shows a notification. Disable the legacy extension to fix it.

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License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Icon theme: Adwaita Colors by dpejoh