How can I force Bottles dark mode?

[Griffin]

Hi everyone, brand new linux user here attempting to switch from a Windows power-user to Garuda daily driver. I’m finding most things to be fairly intuitive, but have run into an issue. I’ve got some pretty severe photosensitivity issues, and I know Bottles has a dark mode that it claims it turns on through the system’s theme preferences rather than giving the users a toggle.
I’ve seen terminal based solutions for turning this on in its flatpak iteration:

flatpak run --command=bash com.usebottles.bottles gsettings set com.usebottles.bottles dark-theme true

But since Garuda doesn’t support flatpak, I’m not sure how to achieve the same effect here, and I can’t seem to find any information online that doesn’t assume Bottles is installed as a flatpak. I’ve also read something about a configuration file somewhere, but have no idea where to find such a thing on this new system.

Can anyone give me some guidance on this?
And more broadly, are there any beginner-friendly resources out there that explain things like where configurations for Garuda Linux typically live in file storage? Is there any sort of way to translate a command like this into an equivalent this system will use? Or what types of syntax/terminal commands Garuda will need you to be familiar with for the basics?

Forgive any presumptions here, I’ve done my best to research before asking. Definitely feeling a little lost in this new world but excited to learn!

[SGS]

Welcome.

Just install with pacman

sudo pacman -Syu bottles
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[Griffin]

Thanks!
I think I babbled my way into not being clear, sorry.

Bottles was installed when I set up Garuda, so it is here. (And I’ve used pacman to install a few other things already! So that works great!)
I just don’t know how to turn on the Dark Mode in Bottles here, it’s stuck in Light Mode. I only mentioned flatpak above because people had mentioned a way to enable it via command when it was installed with flatpak.

Is there a command I can use with pacman to force Dark Mode on Bottles?

[Griffin]

Nevermind!! I think i figured it out. I’m not entirely sure what worked, but I experimented with variations of this part of the command by itself or with “pacman” in front.

com.usebottles.bottles gsettings set com.usebottles.bottles dark-theme true

I’m not sure which worked, but after a restart, I’ve got dark mode Bottles!

Thanks again for the welcome. I look forward to continuing to learn this new system!

[elite]

for future flatpaks you can just rune these too and you should be okay on all but LibAdwaita cause yeah gnome.

Install Breeze flatpak

flatpak install org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark

Flatpak permission overrides to make theme

sudo flatpak override --system --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro --

the breeze theme will match your system colors.