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

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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?

Is your theme still set to this "material" option in `settings > appearance > theme`? — phaze0, Sep 22 '17 at 20:59
JetBrains Staff Reply https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360009460540/comments/360002018140 — weiya ou, Apr 25 '22 at 16:08

score 110 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '17 at 07:46

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

answered Dec 29 '17 at 07:46

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like a PyCharm* – ahlexander Dec 16 '18 at 10:41
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Settings -> Plugin -> Installed – habla2019 Mar 02 '19 at 21:01
Not working in Android Studio on mac os. Status bar popups are still blue and some other things. – mbo Jun 05 '19 at 20:01
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default InteliJ for life !! – que1326 Oct 10 '19 at 06:23
Thanks, I didn't like the material UI at all and just removed. – Arefe Feb 01 '21 at 07:13
Just adding if someone couldn't find the uninstall option. it is located at the top right three dots menu. – Windo Nov 09 '21 at 05:52

score 33 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 09:42

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You should:

Go to Settings->Plugins and remove Material UI plugin
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.

answered Mar 28 '18 at 09:42

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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 :-( – andyb Apr 12 '18 at 09:56
With last versions, when you remove plugin, program ask if you want to restart or not to apply changes. – Algorys May 24 '18 at 08:53
@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? – Drenai Sep 04 '18 at 16:03
In phpstorm version 2019.3 just remove the plugin then restart ide. – Bruno Luiz K. Dec 02 '19 at 12:26
The path changed to C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\IntelliJIdeaxxxx.x\colors. Delete all files there and you're editor is default again. – GerardV Jan 31 '23 at 07:49

score 15 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 07 '19 at 11:43

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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.

edited Jul 07 '19 at 11:43

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answered Sep 17 '18 at 17:53

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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 :) – theY4Kman Oct 20 '18 at 04:39
Thank you for sharing, that indeed worked. These modified colours gave me headache :D – ruX Aug 29 '22 at 10:09

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 01 '18 at 04:10

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

Go to plugins, uninstall Material UI.
Ensure colour scheme is Default/Darcula.
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/

colors/_@user_Darcula.icls
colors/_@user_Default.icls
material_custom_theme. xml
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!

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 25 '17 at 11:57

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Unfortunately whatever I was doing from the settings, I've couldn't get rid of that theme. So I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it again without material theme. Hope there will be better solution.

answered Dec 25 '17 at 11:57

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 22 '19 at 06:27

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

answered Feb 22 '19 at 06:27

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 10 '18 at 19:18

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A tad brute force, but you could try and delete the theme directly.

Close IntelliJ
Go to: ..\JetBrains\themes
Delete Material UI
Open IntelliJ

answered Jan 10 '18 at 19:18

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 23 '18 at 08:42

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Press Command + , (comma) (Shortcut to preferences) and search for material. Uninstall the material in plugins section.

answered Jul 23 '18 at 08:42

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 14 '18 at 20:35

Uninstall Material Theme UI plugin: Settings->Plugins
Delete colors from the config folder: C:\Users\User name\<.IdeaIC2018.2>\config\colors (don't remove the whole config folder because all the previous settings and tasks will be removed)
Delete material_theme file: C:\Users\User name\<.IdeaIC2018.2>\options\material_theme

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 28 '20 at 16:52

If you are wondering how to do it in PHPStorm 2020.2 and above:

Settings (Alt + Ctrl + S) -> Plugins -> Uncheck the MaterialUI.

After unchecking, you would then be able to see an option to uninstall from the dropdown arrow found next to the install button.

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 19 '23 at 18:35

This works for me in 2023.

Steps Go to File --> Settings --> Plugins --> Go to "Installed" tab --> Search "Material Theme UI" --> Click on settings icon --> Click on "Uninstall" --> Click "Yes" in the dialog box --> Restart the IDE

Screenshot

Make sure to Restart the IDE

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Feb 18 '19 at 19:29

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2019 version File > Settings (or alt + f7 on windows), search for material theme ui

answered Feb 18 '19 at 19:29

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 14 '19 at 00:28

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if you have the stupid accents persisting through uninstalling the plugin, deleting config files and so on the solution is under:

appearance and behavior > file colors > delete all of them

answered Dec 14 '19 at 00:28

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Yusef Maali · Answer 14 · 2020-01-03T18:25:03.520

Another 2019 version (worked in my case):

open the settings editor (File->Settings)
search for Plugins page
inside the Plugins page, search for the Material UI plugin and uninstall it
search for Appearance & Behaviour->Appearance page
select the theme you prefer (IntelliJ or Darkula or High contrast). If your theme is already selected, chose another theme, apply the changes, than select back your preferred theme.
close IntelliJ (or PyCharm/WebStorm/etc)
open .IntelliJIdea<version>/config folder, usually it's in your home folder.
remove the following files:
- material_theme.xml
- colors/_@user_Darcula.icls or colors/_@user_Dafault.icls (beware: you may loose custom configurations you may have done)

Done.

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

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