Enhance visibility of tabs in dark mode #20589

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opened 2026-01-31 07:18:31 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @jabwd on GitHub (Sep 30, 2023).

Enhanced darkmode. I can't actually visibly easily tell which tab is active because of the lack of contrast.
I tried searching for issues related to this but it is possible I've done a poor job of that.

Increased visibility of the darkmode tabs, its a patch I'm willing to make but since its visual I think its unlikely that it'll be accepted at face value.

Darkmode users to have better visibility into what tabs they're actually in. Maybe very good screens are clearer on this, but it shouldn't be a pre-requisite on using Terminal.

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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Oct 2, 2023):

You can probably just configure this yourself nowadays, with "Themes". Maybe something like:

"theme": "super dark"
"themes":
[
    {
    "name": "super dark",
    "window": {
        "applicationTheme": "dark"
    },
    "tab": {
        "background": "#000000ff",
        "unfocusedBackground": "#00000000"
    },
    "tabRow": {
        "background": "#555555ff",
        "unfocusedBackground": "#333333FF"
    }
},
]

so that the tabs would look like #000000 on #555555 by default/?

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Oct 2, 2023): You can probably just configure this yourself nowadays, with ["Themes"](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/themes). Maybe something like: ```json "theme": "super dark" "themes": [ { "name": "super dark", "window": { "applicationTheme": "dark" }, "tab": { "background": "#000000ff", "unfocusedBackground": "#00000000" }, "tabRow": { "background": "#555555ff", "unfocusedBackground": "#333333FF" } }, ] ``` so that the tabs would look like `#000000` on `#555555` by default/?
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@jabwd commented on GitHub (Oct 2, 2023):

I had no clue that was an option, thank you very much. I'll be closing the issue!

@jabwd commented on GitHub (Oct 2, 2023): I had no clue that was an option, thank you very much. I'll be closing the issue!
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Reference: starred/terminal#20589