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

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 part

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.