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Toggle dark theme

Toggle dark theme

Ralf Sternberg

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707 installs
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Adds a status bar item to quickly toggle between light and dark theme
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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VS Code Toggle Theme Extension

This extension adds a status bar item to quickly toggle between light and dark themes.

status bar item

How it works

Clicking on the 🌓︎ icon in the status bar triggers the command workbench.action.toggleLightDarkThemes that was added in VS Code 1.69.

Attribution

The extension icon is based on the color-mode icon from the vscode-codicons icon set licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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