theme auto detect stopped working after switching macbooks

squarewave24 commented 7 months ago

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

using settings sync, all of my settings appear to be identical to my old machine, but i can't get theme auto detect to work.

  "window.systemColorTheme": "auto",
  "workbench.preferredLightColorTheme": "Default Light+",
  "window.autoDetectColorScheme": true,
  "workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "Default Dark+",
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Light+"

i've used this feature for 1+ years on my old machine. to test, i've tried both: toggling the OS theme, and regular times for day/night. neither approach works, but that worked seamlessly on old machine.

i've tried toggling auto detect color scheme.

i've also tried omitting colorTheme

  "window.systemColorTheme": "auto",
  "workbench.preferredLightColorTheme": "Default Light+",
  "window.autoDetectColorScheme": true,
  "workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "Default Dark+",

Mac OS Version: 14.4.1 (23E224)
VS Code Version: 1.88.1 (Universal) Commit: e170252f762678dec6ca2cc69aba1570769a5d39 Date: 2024-04-10T17:42:52.765Z Electron: 28.2.8 ElectronBuildId: 27744544 Chromium: 120.0.6099.291 Node.js: 18.18.2 V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0 OS: Darwin arm64 23.4.0

kalebers commented 7 months ago

See if this comment helps: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/158314#issuecomment-1925910407

squarewave24 commented 7 months ago

See if this comment helps: #158314 (comment)

yep! that did it. specifically just removing this line: "window.systemColorTheme": "auto",

kalebers commented 7 months ago

Glad that helped! Any trouble, you know where to find us! :)

microsoft / vscode

theme auto detect stopped working after switching macbooks #210563