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Mail client with dark mode? (linux.community)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm trying to find something and it's not easy. I'm using claws now and I doesn't seem to have dark mode.

Evolution should have it but my theme is set to 'Adwaita-dark' and evolution ignores it?

Thunderbird pissed me off by removing the tray icon...

I tried aerc but it didn't connect to my mail server for some reason.

Any other decent client that does support dark mode?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've switched it out for Thunderbird, but PopOS comes with Geary which has a nice dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Turns out Geary was removed from Debian packages because of some stupid unmet dependency. But hey, it's not my first rodeo. I built it from source. Had to install some dependencies and hack the meson build script a bit but it worked. Aaaaaand... no dark mode. Looks like all the new Gnome tools only work well in gnome. Geary also doesn't have a tray icon, it only supports the Gnome widget or whatever it's called.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For whatever reason I don't see it in Debian's packages. Will check it out later, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Evolution can be forced to go to dark mode. I did it on my desktop with a script I found online. And, of course I am on my laptop and can't find it anywhere right now.

When I get back on my desktop I'll go through my bash history and find it.

I'm using Pop on both machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Cool, would be nice to have it just in case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thunderbird with gnome theme from same developer of Firefox theme for gnome is fantastic. However, I use in my desktop evolution without problems when switching to dark theme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Finally I forgave Thunderbird and went back to it. There's birdtray app available in packages that handles the tray icon notifications and works pretty well.