Breeze Dark theme for Wine

wine-breeze-dark-theme.md

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Install

wine regedit wine-breeze-dark.reg

Uninstall (Reset Wine color scheme)

wine regedit wine-reset-theme.reg

wine-breeze-dark.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="49 54 58"
"ActiveTitle"="49 54 58"
"AppWorkSpace"="60 64 72"
"Background"="49 54 58"
"ButtonAlternativeFace"="200 0 0"
"ButtonDkShadow"="154 154 154"
"ButtonFace"="49 54 58"
"ButtonHilight"="119 126 140"
"ButtonLight"="60 64 72"
"ButtonShadow"="60 64 72"
"ButtonText"="219 220 222"
"GradientActiveTitle"="49 54 58"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="49 54 58"
"GrayText"="155 155 155"
"Hilight"="119 126 140"
"HilightText"="255 255 255"
"InactiveBorder"="49 54 58"
"InactiveTitle"="49 54 58"
"InactiveTitleText"="219 220 222"
"InfoText"="159 167 180"
"InfoWindow"="49 54 58"
"Menu"="49 54 58"
"MenuBar"="49 54 58"
"MenuHilight"="119 126 140"
"MenuText"="219 220 222"
"Scrollbar"="73 78 88"
"TitleText"="219 220 222"
"Window"="35 38 41"
"WindowFrame"="49 54 58"
"WindowText"="219 220 222"

wine-reset-theme.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"=-
"ActiveTitle"=-
"AppWorkSpace"=-
"Background"=-
"ButtonAlternativeFace"=-
"ButtonDkShadow"=-
"ButtonFace"=-
"ButtonHilight"=-
"ButtonLight"=-
"ButtonShadow"=-
"ButtonText"=-
"GradientActiveTitle"=-
"GradientInactiveTitle"=-
"GrayText"=-
"Hilight"=-
"HilightText"=-
"InactiveBorder"=-
"InactiveTitle"=-
"InactiveTitleText"=-
"InfoText"=-
"InfoWindow"=-
"Menu"=-
"MenuBar"=-
"MenuHilight"=-
"MenuText"=-
"Scrollbar"=-
"TitleText"=-
"Window"=-
"WindowFrame"=-
"WindowText"=-

Hey, so I got this theme applied everywhere but foobar2000. Is there a way to make it work there as well? (Not necessarily the exact theme, just need the dark mode to apply which is doesn't want to...)

@Opposite34, foobar got dark mode (windows theming?) support since version 2 - this wine theme approach works for those. Here's what it looks like (Slyfox88's theme):

With some plugins, namely foo_wave_minibar_mod and foo_simplaylist:

foo_simplaylist looks even better than on windows, since it's an old plugin and doesn't support dark mode.

Hey, so I got this theme applied everywhere but foobar2000. Is there a way to make it work there as well? (Not necessarily the exact theme, just need the dark mode to apply which is doesn't want to...)

@Opposite34, foobar got dark mode (windows theming?) support since version 2 - this wine theme approach works for those. Here's what it looks like (Slyfox88's theme):

With some plugins, namely foo_wave_minibar_mod and foo_simplaylist: foo_simplaylist looks even better than on windows, since it's an old plugin and doesn't support dark mode.

It's probably the way I setup foobar as well I guess. I was using https://github.com/emmanuelrosa/erosanix/blob/master/pkgs/foobar2000.nix this nix flake which worked, and it did put wine prefix under my home. However, while the registry trick made the menu for the wine theme editor to be dark mode just fine, foobar stayed in light mode. I've ditched foobar for now though because wine apps are notoriously overusing cpu (leading to overheating) even with powersave, but I'll still keep this gist in mine if I have to theme a wine app.

It mostly works but here's what I get with Wine File:

Any ideas about what's missing here?

Any ideas about what's missing here?

I went through all of these;

None seems to be able to change the background of that.

I also went through all the themes here , none seem to be able to change that background color.

Here's the source for winefile in case somebody is willing to make MR for that.

notepad++ scrollbars appear white even after the listed "fixes" in the comments. here is the fix for notepad++

• winecfg set theme to no theme and then the theme on the right to darkmode
• add these lines of code to the end of the .reg file

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]
"ColorName"=-
"DllName"=-
"LoadedBefore"=-
"SizeName"=-
"ThemeActive"="0"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize]
"AppsUseLightTheme"=dword:00000000
"SystemUsesLightTheme"=dword:00000000

• wine regedit /C 'wine-breeze-dark.reg'
• wineserver -k
• wine notepad++.exe

NOTE: this isn't a proper fix but is a work around wine needs to properly support dark mode. The scroll bars will look a little bit derpy from windows xp or even older but since it's dark mode you won't notice as much. Tested with notepad++ dark mode and vibrant ink theme. It works so far.

For the uninstall reg

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]
"ThemeActive"="1"
"DllName"="C:\\windows\\Resources\\Themes\\light\\light.msstyles"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize]
"AppsUseLightTheme"=dword:00000001
"SystemUsesLightTheme"=dword:00000001

It mostly works but here's what I get with Wine File:

Any ideas about what's missing here?

Hi, I experienced something similar when I first applied this theme. You need to open winecfg:
Go to "Desktop Integration" tab → "Theme" → Select "(No Theme)"
(Since Wine 7.4, a "Light" theme is enabled by default which overrides registry colours).

Then apply the dark theme's registry edit. Taken from here.