macOS Mojave (10.14) was released today, and if you’re like me, you may have decided that dark mode is not for you. Well, I stumble across a site that helped me regain the appearance of High Sierra that I was used to: a light theme with a dark Menu Bar and Dock.
To enable:
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
To disable:
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No
However, this method ended up breaking a few apps and generally it didn’t work out the way I wanted, so I reverted. That’s when Firefox started having a fit, visually speaking, and I noticed in the comments (on the site above) that I wasn’t alone. I tried to reply to the user having the same trouble, but I don’t have a Disqus account (and you’re the product) so I’m writing it here in case anyone has this same issue.
The issue can be fixed by running the following in terminal (assuming you used the command from the article above):
defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
I didn’t need to log out (or restart), Firefox just started working.
I’m actually hoping that dark mode improves over time, or at least that apps better support it. For now, I’ll settle for the default light mode.