
Either fix this or do us all a favor and remove yourself from the web store. When I have a conversation or a room open and the background is blazingly white, that is the exact opposite dark mode. 'Dark Mode', means dark fonts and backgrounds EVERYWHERE. Every time Slack updates to a new version, this file gets overwritten, so you have to re-patch it.įinal note, I don't have it working in Windows yet, but (patch script aside) that should just be a matter of changing some file separator characters. This has got to be the simplest thing in the world. You can change your full name, display name, title, phone number. The dark theme is based on the "laCour" user's dark theme from a while back, that I've been maintaining a version of locally, but there's no reason you can't just point at their theme instead.Īn important note about the ssb-interop.js file patching described in the other answer (and that I've automated with the. In the Slack desktop app or the web app, click on your name from the top-right corner, and choose the Edit Profile option. Tap the smiley face icon in the message field to open the menu. Under Give it a name, enter a name for your emoji, then click Save. My favorite extra plugin is the "random emoji" one :-) From your desktop, click the smiley face icon in the message field to open the emoji menu.
#Give slack desktop app dark background how to#
It has instructions for how to install (there's a script to do the patching described above in the instructions above), as well as some other modifications I've made that you can selectively turn on if you want, with descriptions (and a few screenshots). I've actually created a sort of "plugins" infrastructure for slack based in my github repo.
