Basic App Theming

Noctalia includes powerful theming capabilities that can automatically apply your chosen color scheme to various applications. Whether you’re using colors from your wallpaper or a predefined scheme, Noctalia can keep your entire desktop consistent.

Built-in Application Support

Noctalia comes with pre-configured templates for popular applications. Simply enable the ones you want to theme in Settings → Color Scheme → Templates.

Supported Applications

Desktop Environments

GTK 3/4 - Themes all GTK-based applications (GNOME apps, many Linux applications)
Qt6ct - Themes Qt-based applications (KDE apps, many cross-platform apps)
KColorScheme - Native KDE Plasma color scheme support

Terminals

Kitty - Fast, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
Foot - Lightweight Wayland terminal
Ghostty - Modern terminal emulator

Other Applications

Fuzzel - Application launcher
Discord - Discord clients like vesktop, equibop etc can all be themed
Firefox (via Pywalfox) - Browser theming through the Pywalfox extension

How to Enable Theming

General

Open Settings
Navigate to Color Scheme tab
Scroll down to the Templates section
Toggle on the applications you want to theme
Your color scheme will be applied automatically

Color Sources

Noctalia supports two ways to generate color schemes:

Wallpaper Colors

When enabled, Noctalia uses Matugen to extract colors from your wallpaper and generate a Material You color scheme.

Automatically updates when you change wallpapers
Creates harmonious colors based on your wallpaper
Requires matugen package

Predefined Schemes

Choose from carefully crafted color schemes:

Noctalia (default) - The original Noctalia color palette
Noctalia (legacy) - Classic Noctalia colors
Tokyo Night - Popular dark theme and many more!