Hi, On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 03:48:10PM -0500, Davidson wrote: > I inspected ./etc/newt/palette.dark, > > # mkdir /etc/newt/ > > copied ./etc/newt/palette.dark to /etc/newt/, changed its owner from > the downloading user to root:root, checked that its permissions were > sane > > and then tested with > > # NEWT_COLORS_FILE=/etc/newt/palette.dark dpkg-reconfigure locales > > which looked satisfactory to me. > > So I then did > > # ln -Tv /etc/newt/palette.dark /etc/newt/palette > > and verified that this had the desired effect with > > # dpkg-reconfigure locales > > And it did. I now have the dark theme by default.
Strangely, on my Debian 13 hosts this isn't taking effect unless I set NEWT_COLORS_FILE=/etc/newt/palette. On Debian 12 and below, just putting the file at /etc/newt/palette seems to be enough. I haven't yet worked out if this is some difference in how my Debian 13 hosts are configured, or a bug. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
