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    Menus are unreadable in dark mode for me

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    • mere-human
      mere-human last edited by mere-human

      Does restarting the app help? Or switching to dark/light mode several times.

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      • artie-finkelstein
        artie-finkelstein last edited by

        Given the green border on the editor window I’d look into editor theme (as chosen by the \Settings\Style Configurator… menu) and an interaction with what is being used to alter the Windows color scheme. But, that’s just a guess a my part.

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        • Roy Grubb
          Roy Grubb @mere-human last edited by

          @mere-human Thanks. I tried several times, but it remains the same. It’s been this way solidly for the last three updates of n++.

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          • Stefan Pendl
            Stefan Pendl @Roy Grubb last edited by

            @Roy-Grubb
            can you try switching Windows to dark mode too?
            NPP 8.1.3 is about 96% ready for dark mode.
            Menus might still use the system theme.

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            • Roy Grubb
              Roy Grubb @artie-finkelstein last edited by

              @artie-finkelstein Thanks. I’d earlier looked at that and couldn’t see any way I could control menu text colour. I’m not using the Global override so the Default style is active, and that has Foreground colour black, and background white.
              I did try changing back/foreground colours in Global override and using that, but it made no difference to menu text colours.
              I will experiment with Windows dark mode, but I don’t want to use that permanently. I use the green border because I find borderless windows a bad UI - windows appear to merge.

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              • Roy Grubb
                Roy Grubb @Roy Grubb last edited by

                @Roy-Grubb Correction - In Windows Settings, Windows is set to dark mode, Apps to light.

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                • Roy Grubb
                  Roy Grubb @Stefan Pendl last edited by

                  @Stefan-Pendl Thanks for further suggestions.

                  What I have is default Windows mode set to Dark already, default app mode set to light. Whether Windows app mode is set to dark or light, the response of n++ to its own dark mode doesn’t change. Meaning the main editing window shows dark mode nicely and the menus are as shown in the attached image, so basically unusable.

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                  • mere-human
                    mere-human last edited by

                    It could be nice to see the Debug Info here (in “?” menu).

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                    • Roy Grubb
                      Roy Grubb @mere-human last edited by

                      @mere-human OK, never spotted that.

                      Notepad++ v8.1.2 (64-bit)
                      Build time : Jul 16 2021 - 01:59:50
                      Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                      Command Line :
                      Admin mode : OFF
                      Local Conf mode : OFF
                      Cloud Config : OFF
                      OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
                      OS Version : 2009
                      OS Build : 19043.1165
                      Current ANSI codepage : 1252
                      Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

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                      • mere-human
                        mere-human last edited by mere-human

                        Maybe, it is related to your setup of Windows colors in Settings > Personalization.
                        I’d also try changing something there and see if it helps.
                        92417b14-57b4-4fc5-9319-79a71bb378f6-image.png
                        If you want someone from the developers to look at this problem, you can create a GitHub issue and provide all the details.
                        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#reporting-issues

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                        • Roy Grubb
                          Roy Grubb @mere-human last edited by

                          @mere-human Thanks, yes, I’ve tried that and haven’t found any combination that works. I’ll see if the developers consider it to be a bug.

                          Thanks again.

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                          • Mathias Behr 0
                            Mathias Behr 0 @Roy Grubb last edited by

                            @Roy-Grubb
                            exactly the same here, also with NPP 8.1.3; just want to open a discussion about it, but now will wait what happens here :o)

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                            • Mathias Behr 0
                              Mathias Behr 0 @Mathias Behr 0 last edited by

                              by the way,
                              fresh install on a server 2012R2 shows also in dark mode menus as expected
                              (black foreground, grey background, perfectly readable)
                              so something is missconfigured on my W10, I guess :o(

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                              • mere-human
                                mere-human last edited by

                                Here is a GitHub issue:
                                https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10386
                                You can see some additional comments there.

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