Very similar to this question pertaining to Xcode 4, I am hoping that apple has provided a solution in Xcode 5 for increasing the size of fonts outside of just in the editor.
Yes, preferences > fonts & colors does work for the editor, but that is not my question. Unless my Thunderbolt monitor is directly behind my macbook, the rest of the font on the screen is nearly impossible to read.
Thanks in advance, and if I stumble across the solution, I will be sure to put it up.
I think your best bet is to scale your display (System Preferences) if using the presentation mode in Xcode Preferences Fonts & Colors is not good enough.
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Here's a recurring problem I've had.
I love using a dark theme for my Windows 7 computer. Unfortunately, the only way to get a really dark theme is by choosing the "High Contrast Black" color style, even though I don't really want high contrast, just darkness.
My theme works great, except that once in a while, there's an app that shows terrible colors because of it. Chrome is one example. I managed to fight that off using the Forced Colors setting, but that setting may be removed in the future, and then I'll be in a big problem.
I'm guessing that each app has some kind of API to ask the operating system about the theme colors. Is there any way to intercept that call and change the data, so specific apps will think that I'm on a non-high contrast theme?
Other ideas and solutions would also be interesting to hear.
Just to be clear, I'm aware I can customise the font used in the editor window of VSCode to just about any monospaced font I like. I am not asking about what font is used in the editor. I am asking if anyone knows what font is being used by VSCode for the rest of its interface?
I appreciate this is an unusual design question. But it's to do with my IDE and I need to confirm for a theme project I'm maintaining.
Cheers,
Thanks to more docs, some trial and error, and even Wikipedia I can confirm that the font used in VSCode's own interface is SF Pro when running on Mac OS. I'm assuming that it is SF Pro Text and not SF Pro Display, given the use case. I've reversed engineered the interface during theme development in order to help determine.
Q The question is, is there a way to disable the animations happening with the trackpad-gestures at the currently public-available Xcode 4.3.2 running MacOS 10.7.3 ?
Description I'm very concerned with the new Lion animations while going forward/back with a trackpad gestures. With a keyboard shortcuts the page changes instantly and with a gesture it takes about a second or two spraying around my concentration on the things that need to be found in the code.
Tried What i tried is to read the defaults in the Terminal looking for any animation/duration keys - without success.
Notes Looks like mr. Cook criticizes the things Apple is doing itself while preparing the combined mobile/stationary look&feel. If there's any startup project that collects all the user's customizing, i'll be glad to know. So far i tried the itweax application, it doesn't have yet the expected features however.
Safari stuff is not as much about the content importance, so i would not mind to leave the Safari animations, but changing it on the system level for all the apps is also good.
PS I believe that is about the “software tools commonly used by programmers” mentioned at “What kind of questions can I ask here?” SO FAQ section.
Don't know about disabling animations but if you want to trigger app keyboard commands through gestures, I found BetterTouchTool helpful with some of the major Lion annoyances. Ex. I was able to configure FireFox to do Home/End on a 3-finger swipe up/down.
No, there is no way to disable the animation.
You can, however, disable the page swiping functionality:
System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures > Deselect "Swipe between pages"
Unfortunately, there is no setting to disable or change the speed of the animation.
What is a Good/Best Terminal setting? I had my terminal (Mac OSX) set on Homebrew but it's kind of boring! What setting do you guys use out there? Are there any i can import? Any that you would recommend?
Love to know what colors, fonts, font size you use out there that are easy on the eyes?
Thanks in advance ;-)
I use the Pro settings with minimal changes, and Visor because I really like having instant access to the terminal without alt-tabbing.
I really love the Solarized color scheme. I only changed the colors for marked text which were barely visible.
Also, I am not using the default Terminal.app, but iTerm 2 which has some nifty features.
I was also bored with default terminal settings for a long and after trying tried various combinations, I found the following settings are best suited for day to day programming usage:
Mac's Terminal > Preferences
Monaco, Regular, Font Size 14.
PFB - A sample terminal image for the look and feel.
On OSX, MacVim and Terminal can both be themed to be light-on-dark.
Xcode 3.2 allow the same customization for its editor using color schemes.
However, is there a way to do the same to its UI panels ("Groups and Files"
left pane and the list view top pane for example)? If not, is there a
quick way to toggle both panels on/off?
While you can't adjust the IDE color scheme, you can quickly toggle the navigator, debug area, and utility views with the following commands:
Navigator : ⌘0
Debug Area : ⇧⌘Y
Utility : ⌥⌘0
So, if you set your theme to one with a dark background, you can quickly close/open the lighter portions of the IDE as needed.
You can also change the debug console to have a different background by going into preferences ⌘., then go to Fonts & Colors, then select the Console. Now you can edit its background:
Just be sure to edit the font colors of the various input and outputs texts if you choose black. By default all of the input/output fonts are black, only the console prompt is not.
One possibility for now: System Preferences => Accessibility => Display => Invert Colors.
Note that Apple recently announced at WWDC that Xcode 10 will support "dark mode" as of some time in late 2018.
One cool workaround for this is to use a combination of
"Invert Colors" (in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Invert Colors OR setting up a "Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8" shortcut in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Accessibility -> Invert Colors)
and
Choosing your favourite dark theme in Xcode's "Fonts & Colors", but inverted (!).
For example, I like a Choco theme from Chocolat app, but I need the functionality of Xcode, so I imported the theme manually by adjusting and enhancing some of the fonts and colors in some Xcode's custom dark theme's duplicate. After I was happy with the final theme, I duplicated it and inverted the colors using one of the websites that can be found in Google (http://www.mattlag.com/scripting/hexcolorinverter.php). And voila! "Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8" + "Inverted Dark Theme" makes the whole Xcode environment dark and looking great, without the need of hiding any other sections of Xcode like Navigator, Debug and Utilities.
Let me know if this solution helps. I find it a little time consuming, but worth the effort.
p.s.: I've posted the discussed themes on GitHub: https://github.com/Rep0se/xcode-themes
p.p.s: To theme FileMerge tool in Mojave (for now) use this solution in combination with Invert Colors outlined above.
Quick shortcut Tip: To launch preferences, hit "Command" + ","
WWDC 2018 announced that Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14 will finally include native dark mode support. This will be available around Q3 2018. It will be a full dark style from the side menus to storyboards.
You can turn to full dark mode with the new macOS Mojave.
Simply go to System settings->General and switch to dark. Enjoy!!!
I've been digging around lately and I found some kind of "Hack" of DVT Framework myself... Xcode 10 with dark theme is however around the corner, so there will be no need for this hacking anymore... Anyway you can do nice thingies with this such as changing Highlight colors for buttons and plist-file browsers... If you open Xcode with Show Package Contents and browse a bit, you can find this nice file:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default.dvttheme
You can open this either with Visual Studio Code or Atom or any code editor.
From now on, you can do some hacking and change some of the colors in the Xcode IDE:
But somehow, due to nature of Aqua theme/user interface, you cannot change the scrollViews, which is a bit disappointing... When you could, I would already create repo which would have all the craziness of colors for this. If you want, you can change at least plistViewer and the Attributes inspector windows (The properties are called and documented nice in Default.dvttheme
Hope this helps a bit.
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What you could do is to edit the default Aqua theme with ThemeEngine https://github.com/DominikBucher12/ThemeEngine
(Change assets to black/dark) and the Xcode would inherit this Appearance..
There is an Xcode project that has a huge collection of themes, both light and dark. My favorite is Moodnight.
https://github.com/hdoria/xcode-themes