<ahref="#Generating_a_night-mode_CSS_from_scratch"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.4</span><spanclass="toctext">Generating a night-mode CSS from scratch</span></a>
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<ahref="#Specifying_a_night-mode_CSS_per_wiki"><spanclass="tocnumber">2.5</span><spanclass="toctext">Specifying a night-mode CSS per wiki</span></a>
<ahref="#Flashing_white_background_when_viewing_new_pages"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.2</span><spanclass="toctext">Flashing white background when viewing new pages</span></a>
<ahref="#Flashing_white_background_when_opening_new_tabs"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.3</span><spanclass="toctext">Flashing white background when opening new tabs</span></a>
<ahref="#Various_icons_are_hard_to_see_in_night_mode"><spanclass="tocnumber">3.4</span><spanclass="toctext">Various icons are hard to see in night mode</span></a>
<b>Options</b>: Go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.gui.nightmode"id="xolnki_2"title="Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.gui.nightmode">Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.gui.nightmode</a> and check <code>Enabled</code>
By default, a simple white on black theme is chosen. Exact colors can be chosen through <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.gui.nightmode"id="xolnki_3"title="Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.gui.nightmode">Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.gui.nightmode</a>.
Colors for all HTML content are specified through the CSS. By default, XOWA uses a global css at C:\xowa\bin\any\xowa\html\css\nightmode\xowa_night.css.
Go to <ahref="http://userstyles.org"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://userstyles.org</a>
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Search for Wikipedia
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Pick a user-style. For the current global CSS, I used <ahref="https://userstyles.org/styles/105844/wikipedia-dark-st"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://userstyles.org/styles/105844/wikipedia-dark-st</a>
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Click the "Show CSS" link
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Copy the CSS and place it in C:\xowa\bin\any\xowa\html\css\nightmode\xowa_night.css.
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Remove any line that starts with "@-moz-document"
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Remove any line that loads external urls (for example, loading images from <ahref="http://imgur.com"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://imgur.com</a>)
<b>Wiki-specific</b>: XOWA first checks for a night-mode CSS in this location: C:\xowa\user\anonymous\wiki\your_wiki_name\html\xowa_night.css
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<b>User global</b>: If XOWA doesn't find a wiki-specific file, it checks for a user-defined global file here: C:\xowa\user\anonymous\app\overrides\bin\any\xowa\html\css\nightmode\xowa_night.css.
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<b>XOWA global</b>: If XOWA still doesn't find a CSS file, it uses the global file that is distributed with the XOWA application package here: C:\xowa\bin\any\xowa\html\css\nightmode\xowa_night.css
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<b>Note that the XOWA global file should not be modified. Any modifications here will be lost in the next update.</b>
The HTML browser can sometimes flash white when viewing new pages. This seems to be an issue with the SWT browser control. It can be mitigated through the following
Go to <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg%3Fxowa.app.security"id="xolnki_4"title="Special:XowaCfg?xowa.app.security">Special:XowaCfg?xowa.app.security</a>
Change <code>Load HTML to browser method</code> to <code>url</code>
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Note that this option is not changed automatically because it has a minor privacy implication (pages are saved temporarily to the disk instead of being set directly through memory)
The HTML browswer can still flash sometimes when opening new tabs (Ctrl+T). This is an issue with the SWT tab control. Unfortunately, this cannot be changed
For example, the save button on the New Personal Wikis screen is a black floppy disk. This is hard to distinguish against a black background.
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By default, XOWA is designed for a non-night-mode setting ("day mode"). Most icons will look fine for day mode. Unfortunately, resources are not available to always support both a "day mode" and a "night mode" theme.
Of course, contributions are always welcome. If you want to contribute a unified night mode theme, please contact me via <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback"id="xolnki_5"title="Help/Feedback">Help/Feedback</a>
<li><ahref="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html"title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
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<li><ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org"title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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