How to remove material theme (or reset to defaults

Question

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?

Answer 1

You should:

1. Go to Settings->Plugins and remove Material UI plugin
2. 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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

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

Answer 6

1. Uninstall Material Theme UI plugin: Settings->Plugins
2. 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)
3. Delete material_theme file: C:\Users\User name\<.IdeaIC2018.2>\options\material_theme