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Old 12-18-2019, 05:51 PM   #41
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I really love original R6 theme and Penumbra compliments it perfectly.
Can I somehow have just dark fx and browser windows etc without the modifications of the actual theme elements? (I like the original track colors not the green one you have proposed.)
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You just want the original colors of the media items back, right?

Start the Reaper 6 default theme.
Open the action list and search for "Theme development: Show theme tweak/configuration window".
Execute the command and search in theme tweaker:
  • Media item label
  • Media item peaks (odd tracks)
  • Media item peaks (even tracks)
  • Media item background (odd tracks)
  • Media item background (even tracks)

Make a note of the color values of each surface.
Open the dark mode theme, and then the theme tweaker again.
Now enter the color values for the corresponding surfaces and press "Save Theme...".
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Old 12-19-2019, 12:23 AM   #42
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You just want the original colors of the media items back, right?

Start the Reaper 6 default theme.
Open the action list and search for "Theme development: Show theme tweak/configuration window".
Execute the command and search in theme tweaker:
  • Media item label
  • Media item peaks (odd tracks)
  • Media item peaks (even tracks)
  • Media item background (odd tracks)
  • Media item background (even tracks)

Make a note of the color values of each surface.
Open the dark mode theme, and then the theme tweaker again.
Now enter the color values for the corresponding surfaces and press "Save Theme...".
Thank you for responding
I tried your method but there are still a lot of things you have changed- I'd like to only change the FX and media windows, right now in the original they have white backgrounds. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JY...c3LnOJmgoA9pu9
What colors should I tweak to only get the menus and windows dark as you have done in yours?
Thanks again

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Old 12-19-2019, 12:46 AM   #43
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Thank you for responding
I tried your method but there are still a lot of things you have changed- I'd like to only change the FX and media windows, right now in the original they have white backgrounds. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JY...c3LnOJmgoA9pu9
What colors should I tweak to only get the menus and windows dark as you have done in yours?
Thanks again
Uh, that's a lot. These are not only backgrounds, but also text, input fields, gridlines... graphics...
Use theme tweak helper to find the positions.

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Old 12-19-2019, 05:39 AM   #44
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if i didnt have to modify the windows theme,i would sooo use this
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Old 12-19-2019, 06:40 AM   #45
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if i didnt have to modify the windows theme,i would sooo use this
Yeah it's a pity that high sierra chocolate hack and W10 native dark mode don't work here.
You can still use the theme, of course... but the fx window stays white.
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Old 12-21-2019, 07:50 AM   #46
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On mac you have to activate dark mode in terminal.
could you elaborate on that? Is there a specific command line that does sth else, than the System Preferences do?
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Old 12-21-2019, 02:36 PM   #47
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could you elaborate on that? Is there a specific command line that does sth else, than the System Preferences do?
I had removed this hint, because the dark mode only works from mojave on.

It was about the chocolate-hack on High Sierra. But it turned out very quickly that it has no effect on reapers surfaces.
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Old 12-23-2019, 02:55 AM   #48
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I had removed this hint, because the dark mode only works from mojave on.

It was about the chocolate-hack on High Sierra. But it turned out very quickly that it has no effect on reapers surfaces.
🙏 thanks for clarifying. Still wondering, as the F/X-Window stays light grey on Mojave, none the less Dark Mode is activated, but that Problem shouldn't be your Theme, i guess.
And also ... thanks for your work!!

edit: I just found this Thread: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=222366, now everything matches the Dark Mode!
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Old 12-23-2019, 06:02 AM   #49
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🙏 thanks for clarifying. Still wondering, as the F/X-Window stays light grey on Mojave, none the less Dark Mode is activated, but that Problem shouldn't be your Theme, i guess.
And also ... thanks for your work!!

edit: I just found this Thread: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=222366, now everything matches the Dark Mode!
Great! Thanks for the link!
I will add it to the main post later.
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Old 12-25-2019, 04:11 PM   #50
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Thanks Zeno. It's very kind of you to drop links here and fine tune a Reaper dark mode v6 too. I can't wait to check it out tomorrow.
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Old 12-26-2019, 12:26 PM   #51
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So is there a way to get the dark ReaPlugs and Reaper windows?
I'd like to keep my current theme and only changes those features.
(win 10)
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Old 12-26-2019, 05:08 PM   #52
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So is there a way to get the dark ReaPlugs and Reaper windows?
I'd like to keep my current theme and only changes those features.
(win 10)
Thanks!
No. The colours for plugin surfaces and some other surfaces are determined by W10. Lists, text fields, grids etc are determined by the reapertheme. Changing everything without changing anything is not possible at the moment.
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Old 12-27-2019, 04:42 AM   #53
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No. The colours for plugin surfaces and some other surfaces are determined by W10. Lists, text fields, grids etc are determined by the reapertheme. Changing everything without changing anything is not possible at the moment.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, I was asking if if I can keep my Reaper theme, I don’t mind changing my Windows theme.
Is that still not possible?
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Old 12-27-2019, 10:59 AM   #54
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Sorry I wasn’t clear, I was asking if if I can keep my Reaper theme, I don’t mind changing my Windows theme.
Is that still not possible?
Thanks!
You can use your theme as a base and mod it: change the color of all backgrounds, surfaces, texts, input fields, etc. with theme tweaker.
But the surfaces of the ReaPlugins and some other things stay white. For this you need a special windows theme.
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Old 01-13-2020, 12:13 PM   #55
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Default Great theme!

Just wanted say a big thank you for this theme. Has been my main theme since its release.

Here are a few screen grabs I took - https://imgur.com/a/ajyzk9L
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Old 01-14-2020, 09:31 AM   #56
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Just wanted say a big thank you for this theme. Has been my main theme since its release.

Here are a few screen grabs I took - https://imgur.com/a/ajyzk9L
Nice !
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Old 01-16-2020, 02:02 PM   #57
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Penumbra doesn't come with corresponding dark icons.
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Old 01-16-2020, 02:52 PM   #58
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Penumbra doesn't come with corresponding dark icons.
Which icons do you mean exactly?
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Old 01-18-2020, 06:44 AM   #59
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Which icons do you mean exactly?
Sorry Zeno, I was not specific in saying that it does not have to do with Reaper, but with the Windows theme. Those default yellow folder icons. I think I'll buy a theme that includes those.
And thank you for your Reaper theme. It is what I use now!
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Old 01-18-2020, 12:28 PM   #60
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Sorry Zeno, I was not specific in saying that it does not have to do with Reaper, but with the Windows theme. Those default yellow folder icons. I think I'll buy a theme that includes those.
And thank you for your Reaper theme. It is what I use now!
You do not have to buy a theme to get dark items. You can use any dark-itempack that is available on the internet.

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Old 01-19-2020, 08:39 AM   #61
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Thank you! I found https://www.windowschimp.com/beautif...10-icon-packs/
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Old 06-19-2020, 01:28 PM   #62
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New and absolutely secure ThemeTool:
SecureUxTheme

UltraUXThemePatcher caused unstable themes on some systems.
This is not the case with SecureUx. It does not patch Windows files, but only verifies the theme files.
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Old 10-30-2020, 12:12 PM   #63
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taken me a while to get the courage to do this, but I followed the steps and so far so good, looks great. Takes a tiny bit of tweaking to one's desire but overall it is good so far. Thanks!
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Old 10-31-2020, 10:32 AM   #64
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Somehow I get this when I apply penumbra and change colors to Dark inside Personalization window on Win10.



Do you know how to fix this?
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Somehow I get this when I apply penumbra and change colors to Dark inside Personalization window on Win10.



Do you know how to fix this?
It is only with reaeq?

This is on the cap of cockos. In some releases this bug is fixed and in the next one it is broken again.

So no, sry, unfortunately I do not know how I can help there. :/


EDIT:
Should be working correctly in REAPER 6.15


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Old 11-01-2020, 07:28 PM   #66
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my faders and the fader slider area are still white, but it's not so bad.
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Old 11-02-2020, 12:48 AM   #67
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It is only with reaeq?
Should be working correctly in REAPER 6.15
It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. I can't be sure when it stops displaying it properly. It seems to me that as soon as I apply the Penumbra theme it works fine. But if I restart REAPER and/or Windows it becomes ugly.

It can be seen on ReaEQ and on ReaXComp so far.
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my faders and the fader slider area are still white, but it's not so bad.
Sounds like you have UX installed, but use a different reapertheme?
Sliderbackground and caps are png files and part of the reapertheme.
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It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. I can't be sure when it stops displaying it properly. It seems to me that as soon as I apply the Penumbra theme it works fine. But if I restart REAPER and/or Windows it becomes ugly.

It can be seen on ReaEQ and on ReaXComp so far.
It is since a few version releases ago. After a consumer release Reaper had problems with the correct display of exactly these areas on windows. The devs made changes in the following release. But I don't know what kind of changes they made exactly.
Possibly Reaper now forces a certain #color on these areas.
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Old 11-02-2020, 10:38 AM   #70
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well, this definitely works!

using secure theme too...
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getting CCP as well, just not sure what windows elements are called what.
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Old 11-02-2020, 11:22 AM   #72
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Sounds like you have UX installed, but use a different reapertheme?
Sliderbackground and caps are png files and part of the reapertheme.
yup, different theme. no big deal for me, not enough to want to try to change png's.

thanks again for the guide, so far very good!
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Somehow I get this when I apply penumbra and change colors to Dark inside Personalization window on Win10.



Do you know how to fix this?
I'm having the same issue, did you manage to fix it?
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Not really. I try changing themes a couple of times and sometimes it works, but not always.
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I'm having the same issue, did you manage to fix it?
Hi, Birdy.

I'm very sorry about that, but there's nothing I can do about it.
Devs have made visual adjustments to some of the ReaPlugins in one of their past releases and are forcing the light color on the corresponding areas. Very inelegant if you ask me....

There is only one workaroud: Hide Tabs & save preset as default
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Do some windows users still have some instability (white background element) on this (when restarting reaper or system for eg)?
Or is it good now ?
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Somehow I get this when I apply penumbra and change colors to Dark inside Personalization window on Win10.



Do you know how to fix this?

Version Reaper 6.34
I'm having the same issue.

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Old 10-18-2021, 12:32 PM   #78
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Thank you very much for the this dark mode, and I typed in "defaults write com.cockos.reaper NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 0" in the terminal on Mac but for FX it's still white color. Any assistance would be appreciated bro. Thanks.
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Old 12-07-2021, 03:12 AM   #79
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Does this also work with Windows 11 and the latest Reaper versions? It's exactly how I want Reaper and its plugins to look like, but I'd like to confirm before fiddling around with my system.

Thank you for your work!

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Thank you very much for the this dark mode, and I typed in "defaults write com.cockos.reaper NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 0" in the terminal on Mac but for FX it's still white color. Any assistance would be appreciated bro. Thanks.
No, sorry, I can't offer you any assistance (windows user here).
I found the terminal command in another thread here on the forum about the hidden dark mode in Mac High Sierra. Search for "mac dark mode" or something similar, maybe there is more information there.
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