How to remove material theme (or reset to defaults) from IntelliJ / PyCharm?

Question

I have installed Material Theme UI and it made my IDE blackish. Later I decided to remove and and removed plugin. Unfortunately, this didn't give default colors back, some parts of IDE, for example Project pane, remained blackish.

How ro recover?

How to remove material theme from IntelliJ / PyCharm?

Solution 1

you can go to the Preferences->Plugins on the search bar, type Material UI then press on the Uninstall button .

Solution 2

You should:

1. Go to Settings->Plugins and remove Material UI plugin
2. Switch to Default theme in Settings->Editor->Color Scheme

If it does not help (it happened to me) and you still have some colors/fonts from removed Material UI - looks like Material UI theme override some default colors. You should then close Intellij, go to Intellij config folder (on Windows it is C:/Users/<your username>/.IntellijIdeaXXXX.X/config) and remove this config folder and restart Intellij. It should show you a dialog window to import settings from previous version or use defaults (like when you install Intellij and make the first start). After that everything will be switched to default colors/fonts.

Solution 3

From the material-theme-jetbrains repo:

File Colors stuck after uninstallation The File Status Colors feature is also a feature that sticks outside of the realm of the plugin as it modifies the IDE itself. Therefore when uninstalling/disabling the plugin the colors will stuck.

If you want to reset to the default colors, open the Settings at Version Control -> File Status Colors in 2017.3+. In previous versions, you will need to go to the config directory and delete the _@user_Darcula.icls color scheme manually.

Solution 4

None of these worked for me as an acceptable solution. So here is what I figured out:

1. Go to plugins, uninstall Material UI.
2. Ensure colour scheme is Default/Darcula.
3. Restart Idea.

At this point most changes were back to default, but some things like colour of current tab, error highlights, modified files etc were still not back to usual. So I followed the advice of deleting config and things returned to normal. But with this option you lose everything, even the installed plugins. And worst thing was, I was using a settings repository to sync settings, few minutes later the colours were back! So I did a diff with older config directory and then a git log revealed that these files are the culprits.

Delete these 4 files from this path: .IntelliJIdea<version>/config/settingsRepository/repository/

1. colors/_@user_Darcula.icls
2. colors/_@user_Default.icls
3. material_custom_theme. xml
4. material_theme.xml

Then do a git commit and git push to ensure these are synced to your repository. And finally theme was back to normal!

Solution 5

Tested with intellij 2018.3 go to settings->Type material then untick the material theme after that restart ide should fix the issue.

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Comments

[andyb]

Luckily I had a backup config from 2017 I could reimport into 2018 IntelliJ. The uninstall of Material UI theme leaves IntelliJ in a bad state. I could not change the font of the Project panel back without removing the config :-(

[Algorys]

With last versions, when you remove plugin, program ask if you want to restart or not to apply changes.

[Drenai]

@Algorys I have version 2018.2.2. First time using WebStorm. I found the a lot of the tabs/menus/tooltips etc barely readable. I tried all the different themes, with a restart after each one applied. How did you find them?

[theY4Kman]

Visiting Version Control > File Status Colors, clicking each category, then pressing Restore Defaults reverted Material's stubborn file colors for me in PyCharm 2018.3. Thank you, I found them bothersome :)

[ahlexander]

like a PyCharm*

[habla2019]

Settings -> Plugin -> Installed

[mbo]

Not working in Android Studio on mac os. Status bar popups are still blue and some other things.

[que1326]

default InteliJ for life !!

[Bruno Luiz K.]

In phpstorm version 2019.3 just remove the plugin then restart ide.

[Arefe]

Thanks, I didn't like the material UI at all and just removed.

[Windo]

Just adding if someone couldn't find the uninstall option. it is located at the top right three dots menu.