fman

Themes

Select theme

Switch fman's colors from the command palette, applied immediately and remembered.

Select theme switches fman's color theme from the command palette and applies it immediately — no restart.

Usage

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P and run Select theme.
  2. A quicksearch list shows every installed theme. The active one is preselected and marked current. Type to fuzzy-filter, like any other palette list.
  3. Pick one with Enter or a click. The panes, header, status bar, location bar, dialogs and the palette itself recolor right away, and the choice is remembered across restarts.

Bundled themes

Monokai (default), Dark, Light, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light, Nord, Dracula, Gruvbox Dark, High Contrast, WezTerm and Matrix.

Matrix also ships slightly translucent ("opacity": 0.92). Use Set window opacity to override that, or to fade any other theme.

What a theme can change besides colors

  • Icons. A theme may name an icon set and an icon size, so switching theme can change every icon in the panes. Select icon set overrides that, or picks a set without changing your colors.
  • Font. A theme may name a font family too — eight of the eleven bundled themes do. Select font overrides that, or picks a family without changing your colors.

Commands

Command name Palette label Default key
select_theme Select theme none (palette only)

Change theme, color scheme, colors, dark mode and skin find it too. They are hidden keywords, so the row still reads Select theme.

{ "keys": ["Ctrl+Alt+T"], "command": "select_theme" }

Notes

  • A file viewer that is already open — text, image or video — keeps its old colors until you close and reopen it. Those viewers copy the pane's colors when they open.
  • Context menus on Windows and macOS stay native-looking under every theme.
  • The choice is saved as theme in %APPDATA%/fman/Local/Settings.json.

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