# How to get ParaView Dark UI?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628 "2018-09-25T05:47:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/1 "2018-09-25T05:47:43Z")
I’ve seen screen captures that show ParaView can be customized for a dark user interface such as the screen captures at [this link](https://www-pequan.lip6.fr/~tierny/visualizationExerciseParaView.html) or [this link](https://topology-tool-kit.github.io/bettiNumbers.html).
Does anyone know of an easy way to change PV’s UI to a dark theme? Is this only possible on Linux? Could I do this on a Mac?
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/2 "2018-09-25T07:48:27Z")
Hello Bane,
I am on the team who develop TTK,
changing the theme of Paraview means changing the theme of Qt5. This can be done using the Qt 5 Configuration Tool : [qt5ct](https://sourceforge.net/p/qt5ct/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/qt5ct/).
I have never tried it on a Mac.
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### Author:  [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/3 "2018-09-25T23:37:20Z")
Ah, awesome! I’ll give it a try on my Mac in the next week or so and if successful, post the process here.
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### Author:  [@kayarre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kayarre)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/4 "2018-11-15T19:09:33Z")
were you able to have any more luck figuring this out?
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### Author:  [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/5 "2018-11-16T03:09:07Z")
It’s been on my todo list (low priority) and just haven’t had a chance. I really want to though!
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### Author:  [@Moritz\_Hof](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Moritz_Hof)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/6 "2018-12-07T14:25:48Z")
Hello,
I have personally tried it on my MBP (10.13.6… I have not upgraded to Mojave) and I have not been able to get the dark UI to work. On my other computer running Ubuntu 18.04, it was a breeze and works just fine.
If you guys figure it out for a Mac, let me know 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dec](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dec)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/7 "2019-09-06T14:10:11Z")
Is this possible in a Windows installation?
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### Author:  [@rabarbar42](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rabarbar42)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/8 "2019-10-15T14:18:43Z")
Generally, there’s no problem theming Paraview by editing QT settings. The problem/issue is to get Paraview to read the obtained qtconfig file. If you used e.g. the version packaged with Ubuntu/Debian linux, and qt5ctrl to configure the entire QT, then Paraview will respect it and use the dark theme.
However, if an OS uses the binary boundle downloaded from [paraview.org](http://paraview.org), it’s a different pair of shoes, and enforcing a QT config file is more involved.
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### Author:  [@jvn](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jvn)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/9 "2020-01-06T11:14:41Z")
For me (manjaro XFCE) it helps to set the style flag as:
./paraview -style=gtk+
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### Author:  [@Michael](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Michael)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/10 "2020-01-06T12:33:21Z")
You can also set the variable `QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE` instead of the `-style` argument.
Note that a bug prevents the theme to correctly be loaded with ParaView 5.7 but it is fixed in master and will work with the upcoming 5.8 release.
As mentioned by @rabarbar42 this method will not work with the binary bundle that we provide because it is not using the QT of your system.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui/628/11 "2020-06-09T07:07:36Z")
I’ve written up a Tips&Tricks : [How to get ParaView Dark UI (Linux, System Qt)](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-paraview-dark-ui-linux-system-qt/4545/2)
Do no hesitate if someone has a way to achieve that on other platforms.