Recently I started using Ubuntu as my default OS for programming and I am loving working in it!
But there was an issue which I faced, By default in Google Chrome dark mode is not enabled and it was kind of a letdown.
After digging up the Internet I found that In order to enable the Dark mode I needed to edit the google-chrome.desktop file.
If you are also dealing with a similar issue then, just follow along
Firstly open, the google-chrome.desktop file using,
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
After the file has been opened, you will need to edit two lines
1. Search for the line-
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
replace it with-
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode --force-dark-mode
2. Search for the line-
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
replace it with-
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode --force-dark-mode
Now, Save the file and restart Chrome. Dark mode should be enabled now
Thanks for reading!
Have a nice day!😇
Top comments (8)
Thank you, Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS here and it definitely works. However, it seems that the "google-chrome.desktop" file gets overwritten once Chrome updates and then you lose all the config again, did that happen to you? If so, do you know any fixes?
Yeah, but I don't know if this is fixable or not😕
My workaround, run with sudo this shell script.
sed -i 's/^Exec=\/usr\/bin\/google-chrome-stable$/& --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode --force-dark-mode/' /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktopsed -i 's/%U/--enable-features=WebUIDarkMode --force-dark-mode &/' /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
Thank you for this, every-time I updated chrome I come back here to make it dark again ;).
I have Ubuntu 22.04
Gald to know, that it helped you🥳😇
It worked for me after I restarted my entire session.
Thanks a lot
Glad to know!🥳😇
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