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

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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

1. Go to plugins, uninstall Material UI.
2. Ensure colour scheme is Default/Darcula.
3. 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/

1. colors/_@user_Darcula.icls
2. colors/_@user_Default.icls
3. material_custom_theme. xml
4. 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!

Answer 6

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

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