How To Get Dark GNOME Shell Menus And Dialogs On Ubuntu 19.10 With Yaru Theme

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Gnome Shell dark

The default dark theme in Ubuntu 19.04/19.10 Gnome is missing some components in gnome shell. This will apple the YAru dark theme to the missing portions of gnome shell.

Install software

sudo apt install git meson sassc libglib2.0-dev libxml2-utils
git clone https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru
cd yaru
meson build
cd build
sudo ninja install
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks gnome-shell-extensions

Enable the User themes extension and switch to the Yaru-dark Shell theme in gnome-tweaks

• install gnome extension user-themes
  • using the browser extension:
  • https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/
  • github repo:
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions
• start gnome tweaks gnome-tweaks
• go to to 'Extensions'
• enable user themes
• go to Appearance
• go to Shell enable the dark theme

undo

sudo rm -r /usr/share/themes/{Yaru,Yaru-dark,Yaru-light}
sudo apt install --reinstall yaru-theme-gnome-shell yaru-theme-gtk