Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Dark GTK Theme, Better Raspberry Pi 5 Support
The new Raspberry Pi OS release, versioned 2023-12-05, brings a new dark GTK theme that you can enable from Appearance Settings > System > Dark, enables the Battery Monitor plugin by default in the panel, and adds a new “Taskbar Preferences” menu item to the panel’s right-click context menu.
In addition, this release harmonizes the GTK+2 theme with the GTK+3 theme to improve support for Qt apps, enables monitoring of theme files in the pixdecor plugin to load changes on the fly, boosts reloading of on-the-fly theme changes, adds a German translation to Appearance Settings, and restores the shortcut to The Magpi website in the main menu.
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Raspberry Pi OS goes goth
We took a fresh image of Raspberry Pi OS – which came out earlier this week – and put it on a Pi-400. It worked well, at least for those applications that paid attention to it. Geany and Calculator used their own internal themes and so needed a restart. Thonny did not want to play ball at all, but we managed to fix this by using the editor's Options dialog and manually selecting the Raspberry Pi dark theme.
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Raspberry Pi OS Finally Has a Dark Mode
You just need the latest Pi OS Bookworm release.