Why the theme changed

I’m jumping off from this train. You have NOT provided anything we have asked you to do.

I don’t have a crystal ball.

I’ve answered your question here

And if you focused a little bit more, you will see that I’ve answered all of the questions

It seems some default apps from GNOME have been recently updated, including Nautilus, GNOME’s file manager. Very likely this is a change done by the GNOME developers themselves. I doubt you can do anything.

My shoot is Libadwaita is gone.
Check if you have Libadwaita installed: whereis libadwaita
If it is installed, you should have additional output after libadwaita:

If not, you might need to install it manually, then log out and back in.

What should I do next ?

You forgot an ‘a’ at the end. It’s libadwaita

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I remember making adjustments to themes via some files in your user’s home when I was using xfce.

I now see some slight differences as you mentioned flat icons before and button style now (search glass e. g.)

I only have a rough idea that there might be some elements overwritten in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or ~/.gtkrc-3.0 or ~/.gtkrc-4.0. You can try to rename these files one by one starting with ~/.gtkrc-4.0 - log out and log in after renaming the file to see any effect.

Another idea is to check if you have a ‘~/.themes’ folder in your home containing an older version of adwaita theme - whereever it might have come.

Just two ideas where to look.

no need to use the devel packages they are development versions only not replacing the default settings in any way for now. @Pudge
Default icon theme on Gnome for EndeavourOS would be qogir not adwaita. may somathing was causing it to reset?

Is it still installed?
yay -Qs qogir

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There is it

Yes, it’s installed and actually I want to use Adwaita and I don’t like qogir

Ok, install Libadwaita then: sudo pacman -S libadwaita
Then log out and back in. If it doesn’t help, try applying Adwaita theme again through GNOME Tweaks.

Nothing has changed

Well, in this situation it might be an upstream issue, for which you will have to wait to be solved.
One workaround you can apply is to download adw-gtk theme: sudo pacman -S adw-gtk-theme It looks just like your standard Libdwaita theme, but it also covers GTK3 applications.

I can see what OP means about the theming looking different (libadwaita has a much more spaced-out, flat design language), and can confirm on my side (fully updated) everything still looks normal:


I wonder if you might have some kind of 3rd party theming engine installed (this reminds me of the default Kvantum themes, not sure what the equivalent for GTK would be though). Maybe try disabling the shell user-theme extension and see what happens.

could be also a environment variable set … or a modified gtk css file…
creating a new testuser could bail out user settings…