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That sounds like a limitation of Omarchy. It's not too bad to theme GTK apps and have them all look a consistent way. For example I use Tokyonight Moon and Gruvbox and they both have GTK themes that look great for Firefox, Thunar, GIMP, LibreOffice and more. 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That sounds like a limitation of Omarchy. It's not too bad to theme GTK apps and have them all look a consistent way. For example I use Tokyonight Moon and Gruvbox and they both have GTK themes that look great for Firefox, Thunar, GIMP, LibreOffice and more. I don't use Omarchy but here's a few screenshots https://x.com/nickjanetakis/s", "context": "", "use_case": "consistent GTK theming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why TUIs Are Back"}, {"id": 760324864, "item_id": 47520304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520304", "by": "hmokiguess", "date": "2026-03-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I have been seeing this theme trending a lot lately, it\u2019s so good Recently I am using a variation that looks like gruvbox a bit but has some tweaks to it https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hrose.amp-theme", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"}, {"id": 760269793, "item_id": 47516862, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516862", "by": "yashasolutions", "date": "2026-03-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it has some nice vibe from when terminal would be weirdly orange", "excerpt": "this the theme I use on my i3 setup - it has some nice vibe from when terminal would be weirdly orange", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"}, {"id": 760217968, "item_id": 47513623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513623", "by": "rezmason", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this website's syntax highlighting color scheme is called \"gruvbox\", which I quite like", "excerpt": "In case anyone's wondering, this website's syntax highlighting color scheme is called \"gruvbox\", which I quite like but took an embarrassingly long time to track down https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox", "context": "", "use_case": "syntax highlighting theme", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"}]}