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Dropdown menu content won't go dark?

#1

My ancient main computer died, and I bought a new System76 Meerkat with Pop!-OS 24.04. Their Cosmic desktop won’t do VNC or RDP yet, so I’ve reverted to Gnome Desktop. I installed Sublime Text via Snap, and it shows Sublime Build 4200.

It opened all in light mode. I found settings to move the text windows and the top header to dark mode, but the actual dropdown content for all the menus is still glaring white. I apologize for being severely handicapped, unable to read the pale text on glaring white background. Maybe I’ve missed some new option?

But I’ve used Sublime on the now dead Arch machine and my RasPi5, and never seen the menu content differ from the rest of the interface. Is this a new feature? How can I make menu content dark?

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#2

The theming of menu is defined by the GTK3 theme. Unfortunately gnome has made it a bit annoying to change. What has worked for me is using gnome-tweaks and changing the Legacy Application style under Appearance.

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#3

@bschaaf,

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I had a horrible experience with gnome tweaks yesterday. When I first opened it it showed lots of theme options, but after I clicked one they all disappeared and I couldn’t get them back. Restarted it, restarted the computer, still hopeless. And it wouldn’t go to dark mode so I could barely see any of its options. Is there maybe some command line solution for this config issue?

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#4

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita-dark' should work

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#5

@bschaaf

I tried the terminal command. It didn’t change anything, the dropdowns are still glaring white in the middle of my dark mode screen.

I just opened Sublime Settings, and see this in the nicely dark right panel:

{
“theme”: “Adaptive.sublime-theme”,
“dark_theme”: “Default.sublime-theme”,
“light_theme”: “Default Dark.sublime-theme”,
“color_scheme”: “Monokai.sublime-color-scheme”,
}

Are those special Sublime themes, separate from the Gnome gtk-theme?

That seems backward… I changed it to:

{
“theme”: “Adaptive.sublime-theme”,
“dark_theme”: “Default Dark.sublime-theme”,
“light_theme”: “Default.sublime-theme”,
“color_scheme”: “Monokai.sublime-color-scheme”,
}

Restarted Sublime, no difference.

On the left side I see:

“color_scheme”: “Mariana.sublime-color-scheme”,

// Controls the "color_scheme" when set to "auto"
"light_color_scheme": "Breakers.sublime-color-scheme",
"dark_color_scheme": "Mariana.sublime-color-scheme",

Maybe I need to override those? But it is only the menu dropdowns that stay light. Everything else is dark ???

Is there some detail setting I’m missing?

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#6

As I said before, the menu isn’t styled by Sublime Text. Changing settings in Sublime Text makes no difference.

You can try figuring out what’s going on by launching Sublime Text from a terminal using GTK_DEBUG=interactive subl --multiinstance --debug, which will open the GTK debugger that lets you inspect the visuals (including the theme).

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#7

I tried your terminal command. It did open a new Sublime window. I clicked Preferences -> Settings and that dropped down as blinding white my lousy vision can’t read.

Looks like a problem:
Unable to open /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Packages/Default/Preferences.sublime-settings

There really is no Default folder.

Maybe this is a Snap problem? I have no experience with Snap, but supposedly it is the simplest install route for the Pop-os system.

Maybe I need to install more pieces of Sublime? The current install works, at least the parts I can see. Sorry I’m so ancient and useless…

Here’s the test log file and Packages dir:

(The settings FivPi bit near the end was trying to copy in the file that works perfectly dark on my RasPi5. The Meerkat turned totally white… I switched back to the meer version where only menus are white.)

loren@pop-os:~$ date
Wed Mar 18 01:52:52 PM PDT 2026
loren@pop-os:~$ GTK_DEBUG=interactive subl --multiinstance --debug
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
:0 UI scale: 1.5 (gtk text scale)
:0 startup, version: 4200 linux x64 channel: stable
:0 executable: /snap/sublime-text/217/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
:0 application: /snap/sublime-text/217/opt/sublime_text
:0 working dir: /home/loren
:0 packages path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Packages
:0 state path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Local
:0 zip path: /snap/sublime-text/217/opt/sublime_text/Packages
:0 zip path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Installed Packages
:0 ignored_packages: [“Vintage”]
:0 pre session restore time: 0.415833
:0 startup time: 0.470257
:0 first paint time: 0.482151
reloading plugin Default.arithmetic
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reloading plugin Default.convert_syntax
reloading plugin Default.copy_path
reloading plugin Default.echo
reloading plugin Default.exec
reloading plugin Default.fold
reloading plugin Default.goto_line
reloading plugin Default.history_list
reloading plugin Default.html_print
reloading plugin Default.indentation
reloading plugin Default.install_package_control
reloading plugin Default.keymap
reloading plugin Default.kill_ring
reloading plugin Default.mark
reloading plugin Default.new_templates
reloading plugin Default.open_context_url
reloading plugin Default.open_in_browser
reloading plugin Default.pane
reloading plugin Default.paragraph
reloading plugin Default.paste_from_history
reloading plugin Default.profile
reloading plugin Default.quick_panel
reloading plugin Default.rename
reloading plugin Default.run_syntax_tests
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reloading plugin Default.set_unsaved_view_name
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reloading plugin Default.show_scope_name
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reloading plugin Default.sort
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reloading plugin Default.symbol
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reloading plugin Default.ui
reloading plugin CSS.css_completions
reloading plugin Diff.diff
reloading plugin HTML.encode_html_entities
reloading plugin HTML.html_completions
reloading plugin Package Control.plugin
:0 plugins loaded
Package Control: All specified packages up-to-date!
:0 Unable to open /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Packages/Default/Preferences.sublime-settings
loren@pop-os:~$

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loren@pop-os:~/.config/sublime-text/Packages$ ls -alRu
.:
total 16
drwx------ 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 .
drwx------ 8 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 …
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 ‘Colorsublime - Themes’
drwx------ 2 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 User

‘./Colorsublime - Themes’:
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 .
drwx------ 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 …
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 cache

‘./Colorsublime - Themes/cache’:
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 …
drwxrwxr-x 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 Colorsublime-Themes-master

‘./Colorsublime - Themes/cache/Colorsublime-Themes-master’:
total 112
drwxrwxr-x 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 159 Mar 8 13:49 .eslintrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 71 Mar 8 13:49 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 1061 Mar 8 13:49 LICENSE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 920 Mar 8 13:49 package.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 59128 Mar 8 13:49 package-lock.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 7001 Mar 8 13:49 README.md
drwxrwxr-x 2 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 tests
drwxrwxr-x 2 loren loren 12288 Mar 8 13:49 themes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 150 Mar 8 13:49 .travis.yml

‘./Colorsublime - Themes/cache/Colorsublime-Themes-master/tests’:
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 2 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 454 Mar 8 13:49 runner.js
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 830 Mar 8 13:49 themes-exist.spec.js
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 10982 Mar 8 13:49 themes-parsing.spec.js

‘./Colorsublime - Themes/cache/Colorsublime-Themes-master/themes’:
total 3960
drwxrwxr-x 2 loren loren 12288 Mar 8 13:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 8 13:49 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 10944 Mar 8 13:49 1337.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6567 Mar 8 13:49 1Pastel.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6844 Mar 8 13:49 2112.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11183 Mar 8 13:49 3024_Day.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11186 Mar 8 13:49 3024_Night.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6215 Mar 8 13:49 Abyss.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 23774 Mar 8 13:49 Acai.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8723 Mar 8 13:49 Active4D.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12460 Mar 8 13:49 Adventure_Time.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11822 Mar 8 13:49 Afterglow.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6680 Mar 8 13:49 AgolaDark.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 5986 Mar 8 13:49 All_Hallows_Eve.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 3720 Mar 8 13:49 Amber.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12337 Mar 8 13:49 Amy.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11394 Mar 8 13:49 AnarchistEighties.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 13657 Mar 8 13:49 Anarchist.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 22404 Mar 8 13:49 Angular-io-Code.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 52465 Mar 8 13:49 Another_Kolor_Dark.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 49843 Mar 8 13:49 Another_Kolor_Light.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 18970 Mar 8 13:49 ant.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8795 Mar 8 13:49 Array.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21613 Mar 8 13:49 arstotzka.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9449 Mar 8 13:49 ArtSchool.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9302 Mar 8 13:49 Ascetic-Night.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9296 Mar 8 13:49 Ascetic.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6687 Mar 8 13:49 Aurora.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21605 Mar 8 13:49 azure.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6816 Mar 8 13:49 bashling.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8447 Mar 8 13:49 BatmanLight.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8447 Mar 8 13:49 Batman.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 22313 Mar 8 13:49 BerryNice.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 18691 Mar 8 13:49 Better_JS.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6724 Mar 8 13:49 BigBend.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 17390 Mar 8 13:49 Bijan.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11195 Mar 8 13:49 Birds_of_Paradise.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9191 Mar 8 13:49 Bittersweet.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 7864 Mar 8 13:49 Blackboard.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 79399 Mar 8 13:49 BlackRain.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 5136 Mar 8 13:49 Bliss.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 18138 Mar 8 13:49 blockninja.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9311 Mar 8 13:49 BlueDawn.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12062 Mar 8 13:49 BlueLover.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 3724 Mar 8 13:49 Blueprint.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 17908 Mar 8 13:49 bluloco-dark.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 17619 Mar 8 13:49 bluloco-light.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21589 Mar 8 13:49 bold.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 5067 Mar 8 13:49 Boron.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21593 Mar 8 13:49 BoxUK.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 68248 Mar 8 13:49 Brilliance_Black.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 57682 Mar 8 13:49 Brilliance_Dull.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 23066 Mar 8 13:49 Brogrammer.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6215 Mar 8 13:49 Brunette.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6647 Mar 8 13:49 Bungler.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6924 Mar 8 13:49 Butterfly.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 16298 Mar 8 13:49 CandyLand.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21599 Mar 8 13:49 chocolate.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6392 Mar 8 13:49 Chrome_DevTools.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 7943 Mar 8 13:49 Clouds_Midnight.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 7632 Mar 8 13:49 Clouds.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6066 Mar 8 13:49 Coal_Graal.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12585 Mar 8 13:49 Cobalt.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6247 Mar 8 13:49 Codecademy.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9245 Mar 8 13:49 CodeWarrior.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 3037 Mar 8 13:49 Colonoscopy.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6443 Mar 8 13:49 cP-Code.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8495 Mar 8 13:49 Daily-Grind.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 32088 Mar 8 13:49 DarkCF.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12188 Mar 8 13:49 Dark-Dracula.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6422 Mar 8 13:49 DarkKorokai.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 10139 Mar 8 13:49 Dark_Krystal.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 12448 Mar 8 13:49 DarkMosquito.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21943 Mar 8 13:49 DarkRoomContrast.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 21941 Mar 8 13:49 DarkRoomNormal.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 26054 Mar 8 13:49 Darkside_light_selection.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 9668 Mar 8 13:49 Dawn.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 15730 Mar 8 13:49 dimmed-monokai-no-contrast.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 20063 Mar 8 13:49 Flatland_Dark.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6550 Mar 8 13:49 Flat.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 11977 Mar 8 13:49 LastRoom_Light.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6355 Mar 8 13:49 LightBulb.tmTheme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8293 Mar 8 13:49 MagicWB_Amiga.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 6611 Mar 8 13:49 Meteor.tmTheme
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 8948 Mar 8 13:49 Monokai-Dev.tmTheme
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./User:
total 24
drwx------ 2 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 .
drwx------ 4 loren loren 4096 Mar 3 14:19 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 108 Mar 11 12:38 ‘Package Control.sublime-settings’
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 0 Mar 11 13:51 ‘Package Control.user-ca-bundle’
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 238 Mar 8 14:00 Preferences.sublime-settings
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 1428 Mar 8 12:49 Preferences.sublime-settings-FivPi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 loren loren 175 Mar 3 14:24 Preferences.sublime-settings-meer10default
loren@pop-os:~/.config/sublime-text/Packages$

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#8

It probably is, we do not support snap or flatpak. I suggest installing using our linux repository instead: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/linux_repositories.html (Note: you’ll want to follow the ubuntu instructions)

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#9

@bschaaf

Purged the Snap version, installed yours. Menu dropdowns are still white.

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen

The rest of the log looks OK to me, but I’m not sure what to look for.

Do you see any clues here:

loren@pop-os:~$ date
Thu Mar 19 12:27:37 PM PDT 2026
loren@pop-os:~$

loren@pop-os:~$ sudo snap remove --purge sublime-text
sublime-text removed
loren@pop-os:~$

loren@pop-os:~$ wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc > /dev/null
loren@pop-os:~$
loren@pop-os:~$ echo -e ‘Types: deb\nURIs: https://download.sublimetext.com/\nSuites: apt/stable/\nSigned-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.sources
Types: deb
URIs: https://download.sublimetext.com/
Suites: apt/stable/
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc
loren@pop-os:~$

loren@pop-os:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary noble InRelease
Ign:2 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://apt.pop-os.org/release noble InRelease
Hit:4 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:6 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:7 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Hit:8 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Get:10 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease [2,948 B]
Hit:5 https://packagecloud.io/eugeny/tabby/ubuntu noble InRelease
Get:12 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ Packages [11.6 kB]
Fetched 14.5 kB in 1s (13.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
loren@pop-os:~$

loren@pop-os:~$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libframe6 libgeis1 libgrail6 libllvm19 libpipewire-0.3-modules-xrdp pipewire-module-xrdp touchegg
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sublime-text
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 54.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ sublime-text 4200 [15.9 MB]
Fetched 15.9 MB in 6s (2,614 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text.
(Reading database … 270485 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/sublime-text_4200_amd64.deb …
Unpacking sublime-text (4200) …
Setting up sublime-text (4200) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) …
loren@pop-os:~$

loren@pop-os:~$ sublime-text
sublime-text: command not found
loren@pop-os:~$ ./sublime-text
bash: ./sublime-text: No such file or directory
loren@pop-os:~$

–> Started Sublime in GUI…

loren@pop-os:~$ GTK_DEBUG=interactive subl --multiinstance --debug
libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
:0 UI scale: 1.5 (gtk text scale)
:0 startup, version: 4200 linux x64 channel: stable
:0 executable: /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
:0 application: /opt/sublime_text
:0 working dir: /home/loren
:0 packages path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Packages
:0 state path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Local
:0 zip path: /opt/sublime_text/Packages
:0 zip path: /home/loren/.config/sublime-text/Installed Packages
:0 ignored_packages: [“Vintage”]
:0 pre session restore time: 0.40861
:0 startup time: 0.459124
:0 first paint time: 0.463634
reloading plugin Default.arithmetic
reloading plugin Default.auto_indent_tag
reloading plugin Default.block
reloading plugin Default.colors
reloading plugin Default.comment
reloading plugin Default.convert_color_scheme
reloading plugin Default.convert_syntax
reloading plugin Default.copy_path
reloading plugin Default.echo
reloading plugin Default.exec
reloading plugin Default.fold
reloading plugin Default.goto_line
reloading plugin Default.history_list
reloading plugin Default.html_print
reloading plugin Default.indentation
reloading plugin Default.install_package_control
reloading plugin Default.keymap
reloading plugin Default.kill_ring
reloading plugin Default.mark
reloading plugin Default.new_templates
reloading plugin Default.open_context_url
reloading plugin Default.open_in_browser
reloading plugin Default.pane
reloading plugin Default.paragraph
reloading plugin Default.paste_from_history
reloading plugin Default.profile
reloading plugin Default.quick_panel
reloading plugin Default.rename
reloading plugin Default.run_syntax_tests
reloading plugin Default.save_on_focus_lost
reloading plugin Default.scroll
reloading plugin Default.set_unsaved_view_name
reloading plugin Default.settings
reloading plugin Default.show_scope_name
reloading plugin Default.side_bar
reloading plugin Default.sort
reloading plugin Default.switch_file
reloading plugin Default.symbol
reloading plugin Default.transform
reloading plugin Default.transpose
reloading plugin Default.ui
reloading plugin CSS.css_completions
reloading plugin Diff.diff
reloading plugin HTML.encode_html_entities
reloading plugin HTML.html_completions
reloading plugin Package Control.plugin
:0 plugins loaded
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2026-03-19 12:33:21, next run at 2026-03-19 20:33:21 or after
:0

–> Tried menu dropdowns - still white. Quit GUI app.

shutdown
loren@pop-os:~$

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#10

@bschaaf

Forgot to mention… A few other apps have occasional white popups in a mostly dark mode environment. Most frequent is the right click copy-paste menu, especially in Tabby Terminal. These only happen in Pop-os, the same apps in my RasPi Debian Bookworm are all consistently dark. The Pop system allows selecting Cosmic, Wayland, or X11, and that makes no difference in the white dropdowns.

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#11

I just tried a fresh install of PopOS 24.04 LTS, installed Sublime Text from our repositories and the menus are all dark out of the box. Since it’s also happening for other applications that points to an issue with your system.

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#12

@bschaaf

I agree with you. I explored the QT5 and QT6 Settings apps that show in the PopOS app menu, and QT5 reports an error that the system is set to QT6. Reported it to Pop support last night.

I know you say Sublime doesn’t use QT, but after changing the QT settings to dark the whole Sublime header is white, as well as the dropdowns. They’re definitely doing something that affects Sublime.

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