MacOS now supports both "Light" and "Dark" mode (found in "System Preferences", "General", "Appearance").
How can I make VS Code automatically change it's theme to be light or dark, when I change my MacOS "Appearance"?
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Sign up to join this communityMacOS now supports both "Light" and "Dark" mode (found in "System Preferences", "General", "Appearance").
How can I make VS Code automatically change it's theme to be light or dark, when I change my MacOS "Appearance"?
This was released in 1.42:
Auto switch Theme based on OS color scheme
Windows and macOS now support light and dark color schemes. There is a new setting,
window.autoDetectColorScheme
, that instructs VS Code to listen to changes to the OS's color scheme and switch to a matching theme accordingly.To customize the themes that are used when a color scheme changes, you can set the preferred light and dark theme with the settings:
workbench.preferredLightColorTheme
workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme