I searched through the vlc
docs (vlc -H --advanced --help-verbose
) but couldn't find a way to do this. Is it not possible to change the interface style to dark in terminal?
Bonus question: How about disabling automatic icon changes?
I searched through the vlc
docs (vlc -H --advanced --help-verbose
) but couldn't find a way to do this. Is it not possible to change the interface style to dark in terminal?
Bonus question: How about disabling automatic icon changes?
Following the advice in @mpy's comment, this gets the job done:
# Ensure the settings file exists (not created on install but on launch)
# by calling vlc with an invalid value for the interface option.
# Does nothing except create and populate the file
# ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc
vlc -I none
# Enable dark mode.
sed -i '' -E 's/#?macosx-interfacestyle=0/macosx-interfacestyle=1/' ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc
# Disable icon changes (e.g. Christmas icon)
sed -i '' -E 's/#?macosx-icon-change=1/macosx-icon-change=0/' ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc
~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc
. My Linux version of vlc does not have the setting you are interested in, so you need to investigate the setting yourself. Just open the config file with an editor, but make sure that vlc isn't running.