tauri-plugin-theme

April 19, 2025 · View on GitHub

Warning

This plugin is no longer maintained, and Tauri official provides a better API. https://v2.tauri.app/reference/javascript/api/namespaceapp/#settheme

tauri-plugin-theme

Tauri currently doesn't support dynamically change app theme, this plugin makes up for that.

https://github.com/wyhaya/tauri-plugin-theme/assets/23690145/2422ce95-418d-4f07-adf5-e78af2552f51

Note


This only applies to the Tauri 2x version. If you are using the Tauri 1x version, please refer to tauri-1x-version.

Install

cargo add tauri-plugin-theme

let mut ctx = tauri::generate_context!();
tauri::Builder::default()
    // Init plugin and auto restore window theme !!!
    .plugin(tauri_plugin_theme::init(ctx.config_mut()))
    // ...
    .run(ctx)
    // ...

Tauri permissions

Add to src-tauri/capabilities/default.json

{
  ...
    "permissions": [
        ...
        "theme:default"
    ]
}

Usage

// Follow system theme setting
invoke("plugin:theme|set_theme", {
  theme: "auto",
});

// Always use light theme
invoke("plugin:theme|set_theme", {
  theme: "light",
});

// Always use dark theme
invoke("plugin:theme|set_theme", {
  theme: "dark",
});

// Get saved theme (default: auto)
const theme = await invoke("plugin:theme|get_theme");

When you call set_theme, the theme will be auto saved, and it will be restored auto after the App restart.

Support

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NOTE

For Windows

Requires WebView2 Runtime version 101.0.1210.39(May 9, 2022) or higher; otherwise, the app will complete the theme change by restart.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/release-notes/archive?tabs=dotnetcsharp#10121039

For Linux

On Linux platform, it has not been extensively tested.