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    • Roy GrubbR
      Roy Grubb
      last edited by

      Menu text and a few icons appear mostly all white if I try to use dark mode. See image.notepad++.jpg

      Is it something special about my setup or what? Obviously this is not happening to everyone else, or it would have been fixed - it’s been like this for me for the last three updates.

      OS: Windows 10 fully up to date, Windows itself not in dark mode. Notepad++ v8.1.2 64bit

      Thanks
      Roy

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      • mere-humanM
        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-finkelsteinA
          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 GrubbR
            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 PendlS
              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 GrubbR
                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 GrubbR
                  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 GrubbR
                    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-humanM
                      mere-human
                      last edited by

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

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                      • Roy GrubbR
                        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-humanM
                          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 GrubbR
                            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 0M
                              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 0M
                                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-humanM
                                  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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