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There is no way to change light / dark theme for sound / brightness progress popups
Not an issue – more like feature request:
I don't know if this worked in the app earlier. For me the problem arrived in macOS Catalina.
Earlier this was easily solved manually by command in terminal (without Gray app):
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
Hope it's not too complicated and you'll be able to add this to Gray app. Will make lots of people happy.
Just to explain in details: when you try to adjust volume or brightness using keyboard buttons, even if you have dark Dock and top bar (with light theme as default) – those square popups with progress bars are still in a light theme, which makes them totally unreadable. And there is no way to switch them separately to the dark.
Hey @cadilluck
Sounds doable to me, seeing that the rest of Gray's functionality is based on running terminal commands it should be pretty easy to provide.
Great, however the problem is that this exact command doesn't work for volume/brightness anymore, since Catalina. Does incl bar and dock, as earlier though.
Seems like they've changed 'handle' / 'linking' or 'placement' of brightness/sound overlays. ;-(
any idea how to find the proper code / terminal command to modify these controls' theme?
Hey @cadilluck, I have yet to figure out which process owns that UI, without knowing which one it is we a really at a standstill I'm afraid. I'm gonna do some more digging, I'll get back to you when I have something new to report.
thank you, dig as well, however no success yet
knowing the process would save the nerves ;-)
Following this Apple Stack Exchange discussion it seems the configuration of those popups is /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper.plist, however that's a readonly system volume on Catalina and isn't modifiable out of the box.
@Etheryte Oh, that is interesting. I wonder if we could incorporate that into Gray if the application has full disk permissions. I'll look into it.
Adding the flag to the file seems to work partially, as in some of the UI is updated, the rest is in a weird state. However, editing this file can only be done by disabling SIP as far as I can see, so it's out of reasonable reach for most users.
glad you found that, sad about negative sides
what if there is a copy of that file in /user/library/launch agents – won’t it automatically load for that exact user? in that folder the file will become editable / any rights possible to set
or no and no other possible solution?