Dark Mode for Notepad++

DVP Rao

Hi ,
How to enable the dark mode in Notepad++ if this feature is available. if VS Code can do it surely it should be possible here. Mt fav text editor. Any help is apprecited. Bassed on an old thred in 2019, I have enabled dark theme on my Windows 10 PC. But still

PeterJones

@DVP-Rao ,

Here are more topics from the end of 2020. The situation hasn’t changed.

if VS Code can do it surely it should be possible here.

Possible, yes. But it would require a significant rewrite of the codebase, and is way more effort than the developers have had the time to implement. So possible, but currently not practical.

Sorry.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Dark Mode for Notepad++:

So possible, but currently not practical.

But there may be hope for you.
I think I saw recently that some of the devs ARE actually working on this.

It’s a “meh” thing for me personally.
I’d rather the devs spend time on other things.
Why does the “dark mode” thing get people so fired up? (rhetorical)

Isn’t the important thing editing text files?? :-)

mere-human

Dark Mode is still in development: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7692
It will be available someday.

prahladmifour

Hello,@DVP-Rao
please follow these steps, On how to enable dark mode in Notepad++.

Step 1: Open your Notepad++, and select “Settings” on the menu bar, and choose “Style configurator”.
Step 2: Select theme “Obsidian” (you can choose other dark themes)
Step 3: Go to “Global Styles” -> “Global override”, click the “background-color”
Step 4: Click “more colors”, and use: “red: 43, blue: 43, green: 43”.
Step 5: Check the “Enable global background-color” option.

I hope this information will be useful to you.
Thank you.