Title bar is not black when using Dark Mode on Windows

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The title bar is not black when using Anki in dark mode on Windows 11.

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What’s your version information (from Help > About > Copy debug info)?

For me (version info below) – Yes, you’re right for an unfocused window, but for the focused window it appears to be fine.

It looks like it’s doing the identical color switching as on Light Theme – focused window has gray bar, unfocused window has white bar. For Dark Theme, the unfocused window title bar should either not change (still gray), or should get a darker color.

[Preferences > Theme > Dark]

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[Preferences > Theme > Light]

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Version info –
Anki 24.06.2 (33a92379) (ao)
Python 3.9.18 Qt 6.6.2 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: Windows-10-10.0.22621

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Anki 24.06.2 (33a92379)  (ao)
Python 3.9.18 Qt 5.15.2 PyQt 5.15.5
Platform: Windows-10-10.0.22621

For me, it’s white whether the window is focused or not. Perhaps due to qt5 ?

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Definitely could be a Qt difference. Thanks for posting that. It will help the devs figure out what can be fixed!

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If it’s a Qt5-only issue, this is not something that is going to get fixed, as Qt5 is no longer being updated by its developers.

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Even in Qt6 though – the title bar of the unfocused window changes to white despite the Dark theme. Is that unfixable as well?

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There might be hope for Qt6, but it’s not something I’ve looked into I’m afraid.

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Can’t reproduce in Anki 24.06.3 running on Windows 11.

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On my Windows 10 computer, using Anki 24.06.3 qt6, I can change Anki’s title bar to black by setting the computer’s system theme to dark.

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I’m not a regular Windows user, and don’t know what’s considered normal here.

@abdo, if you think Anki’s doing something wrong here and feel like digging into it, it would be appreciated. :slight_smile:

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@qubist-pixel @vaibhav @jcznk
There are a couple more variables here that could also account for why we’re seeing different things. For each of you –

  1. Do you have the Anki theme set to Dark or Follow System?
  2. Do you have the Windows mode [Settings > Personalization > Colors] set to Dark or Light (or Custom)?

On mine [Windows 11] –

  1. Anki theme > Dark
  2. Mode is Custom, so it’s broken out into 2 settings – default Windows mode > Dark – default app mode > Light
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On mine [Windows 11] –

  • Anki theme: Follow System
  • Windows color mode: Dark
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Windows 10, Anki 24.06.3, qt6

  1. Anki theme: either Dark or Follow System
  2. Windows color mode: Dark
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@Danika_Dakika
Anki Theme : Follow System
Windows : Dark

@dae : I tried the qt6 build and it does not have this issue. But @Danika_Dakika has set the app mode to Light in Windows and Dark Theme in Anki. Unfocused Anki windows have light title bar which is abnormal behaviour.

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@abdo Before you spend any time on this –

Since the initial issue is Qt5 – it is probably not fixable, yeah?

The separate Qt6 issue that I stumbled into is that when Windows is set to use a “Default App Mode” of Light – Anki being set to Dark Theme does not override that for the title bar of the unfocused windows.

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If that’s as bad as life gets for me – I’m doing fine. So don’t put effort into this one on my account. :sweat_smile:

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I can reproduce this. Fixing it apparently requires registry hacks: Title bar always white on windows 10 · Issue #834 · equalsraf/neovim-qt · GitHub

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