Podasts Lost Dark Mode

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I’ve seen lots of flatpak updates to Podcasts lately. Pretty sure those updates were coming to my Mint PCs, Armbian laptop and the L5, but I could be wrong about the L5. What I remember for sure is that dark mode has been working for a long time (at least with GTK apps). This morning, I finish a podcast but I can’t go to the next one because the app froze. Couldn’t flick it away with Phosh and couldn’t kill it from Usage. I figure it’s been many days since a reboot, so I go that way… but the phone freezes on shutdown. It takes a battery extraction to get it to start… and when it does, no dark mode in Podcasts! Other GTK apps are OK, but Podcasts is blindingly WHITE (disaster).

I re-applied dark mode (gsettings method), but no joy.

Is this happening to anyone else?

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No, but I do not use Podcasts. Did you use these two commands?

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Yes, the very same commands. I am running Byzantium.

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Okay, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app to see if that solves the issue.

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I exported my feeds, but haven’t reinstalled yet because I noticed that I had gotten a error when trying to reapply dark mode!

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Use the command without sudo.

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No sudo, no error… no dark mode.

Uninstalled Podcasts.

Tried to reinstall from PureOS, got error “directory not empty”.

Flatsweep cleaned Podcasts and tons of other trash – recovered almost 5GB!

Reinstall success, but no dark mode.

Uninstall… reinstall from FlatHub, no dark mode. Also no desktop launcher! At least the feeds import worked. :roll_eyes:

Interesting exercise, but I don’t look forward manually rebuilding the launcher. Maybe it won’t be so bad if I plug into the convergence adapter first.

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Maybe it helps to use Flatseal to set the dark mode for the app?

In Flatseal go to Podcasts > Environment > Variables and add GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark.

(It worked for me with other (GTK4) apps)

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Dude… you ROCK!

I only ever used Flatseal for security settings – had no idea it could do this. Gotta use this trick on my laptop/desktop. Thanks!

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I have to say, it’s been a while since I took a hard look at Flatseal. Found the “All Applications” global setting, now all GTK flatpaks are dark!

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