# dark mode for cmake-gui

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 12, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193 "2020-05-12T02:48:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![programaudio](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@programaudio](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/programaudio)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/1 "2020-05-12T02:48:19Z")

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A dark mode for the cmake-gui Windows and Mac desktop applications would be greatly appreciated!

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### Author: ![brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/brad.king/32/11_2.png) [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/2 "2020-05-12T11:43:31Z")

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For reference, [CMake Issue 19869](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/19869) tracks this.

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### Author: ![boxerab](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/boxerab/32/718_2.png) [@boxerab](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/boxerab)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/3 "2025-03-07T15:28:59Z")

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Any updates on this? All of the rest of my development environment is in dark mode, so opening CMake gui almost causes a heart attack due to brightness. Can this be prioritized please ?

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### Author: ![brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/brad.king/32/11_2.png) [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/4 "2025-03-07T15:31:57Z")

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The issue I linked above was closed with a nominal fix, but AFAIK it still doesn’t work in our official binaries.

This is now tracked in [CMake Issue 24343](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/24343).

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### Author: ![craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/craig.scott/32/20_2.png) [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/5 "2025-03-09T22:36:41Z")

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FWIW, the official binaries support dark mode just fine for me on macOS. I can’t comment on other platforms, but it sounds like the lack of dark mode support is probably platform-dependent.

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### Author: ![boxerab](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/boxerab/32/718_2.png) [@boxerab](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/boxerab)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/6 "2025-03-11T14:25:39Z")

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Thanks, unfortunately does not work on Linux. I am surprised this is not prioritized - as I mentioned every other dev tool I use, as well as browser, support dark mode. This would make the GUI more usable and developer friendly.

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/dark-mode-for-cmake-gui/1193/7 "2025-07-20T02:30:25Z")

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Is it that dark mode doesn’t work or that auto-detection is broken?