6.1: how to get rid of the dark theme?

ParaView Support
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I don’t see any controls in the settings. The dark theme is really hard to read – it is too dark.

On Windows 11.

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Check this post: Switch off dark mode in 6.0?

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Yes, paraview came up light. But: the “open file” dialog ended up stretched to unbelievable width (many multiples of the window width). Not clear why…

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Try resetting your configuration files. Edit/ Reset to Default Settings.

Restart ParaView.

Does that help?

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Not with the “light” paraview. The “File open” dialog is still so wide as to accommodate ALL possible input file types. The “dark” paraview is fine.

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How big is your display in pixels?

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2880x1920 (Surface Pro 9).

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@mwestphal @cory.quammen

Do we support Surface Pro’s?

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Even if you don’t, the dark-mode Paraview is fine (6.0.1). And I’ve used previous versions on it as well.

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They run Windows, so yes.

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This is probably caused by the hack of the Qt style you are using as provided in Switch off dark mode in 6.0? - #6 by s1291

A proper setting to control theme should be added to ParaView in my opinion.

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I don’t see any size control (except padding) in the style file…

As you say, a proper selection of theme from Paraview would be ideal.

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