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Getting started
You can install this awesome theme through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
Installation
Launch Quick Open
Paste the following command and press Enter
:
ext install material theme
And pick the one by Mattia Astorino (me) as author.
Packaged VSIX Extension
Download the latest .vsix release file from the marketplace and install it from the command line
code --install-extension vsc-material-theme-*.*.*.vsix
or from within VS Code by launching Quick Open and running the Install from VSIX... command.
GitHub Repository Clone
Change to your .vscode/extensions
VS Code extensions directory.
Depending on your platform it is located in the following folders:
Clone the Material Theme repository as Equinusocio.vsc-material-theme
:
git clone https://github.com/equinusocio/vsc-material-theme.git Equinusocio.vsc-material-theme
Activate theme
Launch Quick Open,
Type theme
and choose Preferences: Color Theme
, then select one of the Material Theme variant from the list. After the activation the theme will set the correct icons theme for you, based on your picked theme variant.
Fix File Icons
If you notice that the folder icons does not match the material theme active variant you can fix it with just a command.
Launch Quick Open,
type material theme
and select Material Theme: Fix file icons
from the drop-down menu, this command will set the correct icon theme based on your active material theme variant.
Set the accent color
Launch Quick Open,
Type material theme
and choose Material Theme: Set accent color
and pick one color from the list.
Disabling/enabling file icons auto-applying
By default material theme will apply the correct icons theme based on your active theme variant. To disable this behavior follow these steps:
Launch Quick Open,
Type material theme
and choose Material Theme: Enable or disable icons auto-applying
and choose to disable or enable this behavior.
Override theme colors
You can override the material theme ui and schemes colors by adding these theme-specific settings to your configuration. For advanced customisation please check the relative section on the vs code documentation
Color Scheme override
Basic example
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Material Theme]": {
"comments": "#229977"
}
},
Advanced example
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"sideBar.background": "#347890",
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation.definition.comment",
"comment.block",
"comment.line",
"comment.block.documentation"
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#FF0000"
}
}
]
},
},
Recommended settings for a better experience
{
// Controls the font family.
"editor.fontFamily": "Operator Mono",
// Controls the line height. Use 0 to compute the lineHeight from the fontSize.
"editor.lineHeight": 24,
// Enables font ligatures
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
// Controls if file decorations should use badges.
"explorer.decorations.badges": false
}
Official Portings
Thanks to the Material Theme community you can use is with other softwares, here the official portings:
- Atom Editor: atom-material-ui (by @silvestreh)
- IntelliJ IDEA (thanks to @ChrisRM and @mallowigi).
- Vim (thanks to @hzchirs).
- Terminal OSX (thanks to @mvaneijgen).
- iTerm2 (by @Revod) and iTerm2 Palenight (by @jonathanspeek).
- Hyper.
- ConEmu (thanks to @rajadain).
- Slack App ( #263238,#2e3a40,#80CBC4,#FFFFFF,#13191C,#ffffff,#50fa7b,#FF5555 )
- Nylas N1 (thanks to @jackiehluo)
- Base16 (by @ntpeters)
Other resources
- AppIcon: Download the official Material Theme app icon for Visual Studio code
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