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ninja
ninja

Reputation: 55

Make Spyder use a dark theme for the entire interface

I am using spyder python 2.7 and i changed the syntax coloring in Spyder black theme, but i really want my python programme to look in full black, so WITHOUT the white windows.

Can someone provide me a good explanation about how to change this?

Python example of how i want it to be

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12238

Answers (4)

chainstair
chainstair

Reputation: 817

Spyder 4 is out now. Dark mode is included ✌

Have a look at the changes: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Upvotes: 1

KaHinCostner
KaHinCostner

Reputation: 167

The complete dark theme is available from Spyder 4.0.0 beta https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

How I did it :

1) In Anaconda prompt,

conda update qt pyqt
conda install -c spyder-ide spyder=4.0.0b2

2) And if you haven't done it before, go to

Tools > Preferences > Syntax Coloring

Upvotes: 4

Dr.Ripper
Dr.Ripper

Reputation: 89

If you can't wait for Spyder 4 - this is what does it for Spyder 3.3.2 in Windows, using Anaconda3.

  1. Exit Spyder
  2. Open command prompt or Anaconda prompt
  3. Run pip install qdarkstyle and exit the prompt
  4. Go to ...\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\spyder\utils and open qhelpers.py
  5. Add import qdarkstyle to the top of that file
  6. Replace the qapplication function definition with below code (only two added lines)
  7. Save and close the file

  8. Open Spyder and enjoy your dark theme

    def qapplication(translate=True, test_time=3):
    """
    Return QApplication instance
    Creates it if it doesn't already exist

    test_time: Time to maintain open the application when testing. It's given
    in seconds
    """
    if running_in_mac_app():
        SpyderApplication = MacApplication
    else:
        SpyderApplication = QApplication

    app = SpyderApplication.instance()
    if app is None:
        # Set Application name for Gnome 3
        # https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside/24qxvwfrRDs
        app = SpyderApplication(['Spyder'])
        # Set application name for KDE (See issue 2207)
        app.setApplicationName('Spyder')
        app.setStyleSheet(qdarkstyle.load_stylesheet_pyqt5())
    if translate:
        install_translator(app)

    test_ci = os.environ.get('TEST_CI_WIDGETS', None)
    if test_ci is not None:
        timer_shutdown = QTimer(app)
        timer_shutdown.timeout.connect(app.quit)
        timer_shutdown.start(test_time*1000)
    return app

Upvotes: 3

Carlos Cordoba
Carlos Cordoba

Reputation: 34156

(Spyder maintainer here) This functionality will be available in Spyder 4, to be released later in 2019. For now there's nothing you can do to get what you want with Spyder's current version, sorry.

Upvotes: 1

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