Dark Arc

A dark theme for gitea with high contrast.

This theme was created by making a copy of theme-arc-green.css and making things darker for better contrast.

If you make improvements/tweaks to this theme please send a pull request, or dump your changes in an issue report.

Before install, first you need to identify 3 things:

• Location of $GITEA_CUSTOM
• Location of app.ini Example app.ini
• User the gitea service runs as

Here is a screenshot of my environment and where to find this info:

Create a public/css directory under your gitea/custom path and download the theme.

In the previous screenshot I posted you can see that MY $GITEA_CUSTOM path is /var/lib/gitea/custom so I will create /public/css below this:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/custom/public/css
cd /var/lib/gitea/custom/public/css
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jieiku/theme-dark-arc-gitea/main/theme-dark-arc.css

Edit the app.ini config file to include dark-arc theme:

The app.ini file location may differ depending on environment, this matches the location of my file as seen in the previous screenshot.

sudo nano /var/lib/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini

[ui]
DEFAULT_THEME = dark-arc
THEMES = gitea,dark-arc

Make sure ownership is correct:

Set ownership of your $GITEA_CUSTOM directory and files, I set ownership to git because gitea runs as user git as seen in the previous screenshot.

sudo chown -R git:git /var/lib/gitea/custom

Restart gitea service

sudo systemctl restart gitea

*or*

sudo reboot

Notes:

I created a feature request for a way to disable organizations because I don't use them.

I was promptly told to use css and my request was closed: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/19391

This theme hides Organizations using CSS, you can find it at the bottom of the theme:

#dashboard-repo-list > div > div:first-child {
  display: none !important;
}