Keyboard Maestro 8.2.4 “Toggle dark mode” Macro

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I created this little macro to toggle dark mode on Mojave. After checking the OS version, it runs a short appleScript to toggle the Dark Mode state. If not running Mojave or later, the macro exits with a notification.

Toggle dark mode.kmmacros (5.5 KB)

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Thanks for sharing this. I think many Mojave users will find this useful. Out of curiosity, why did you limit this to Mojave (and above) ? High Sierra has dark mode too—in a more limited capacity—and it is set via AppleScript using exactly the same code.

I see the macro starts off by executing an AppleScript, then breaking out of it to do a regular expression search before going back in to another AppleScript. As a small hint or tip, you can isolate the major version number like so:

set text item delimiters to "."
set OSMajorVer to text item 2 of system version of (system info)

Then, of course, follow it with:

if the OSMajorVer < 14 then return false
tell application "System Events" to tell ¬
	the appearance preferences to ¬
	set dark mode to not dark mode

Forgive me if you already knew about text item delimiters and simply chose to use more core KM actions out of personal preference.

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Thanks for the suggestions. This was my first macro posted to the site as I am fairly new to Keyboard Maestro. I am familiar with the text item delimiters approach within AppleScript. I haven't done much AppleScript coding in a while, so it didn't dawn on me at the time. I did want to play with the RegEx capabilities within KBM. It is a very flexible utility, so lots of ways to get to the same end.

Again, thank you!

Norm

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My macOS is Mojave, so I use this shellscript:

osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode'
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Hey @suliveevil,

You're running an AppleScript from a shell script.

That’s redundant when running from Keyboard Maestro.

Just use an Execute an AppleScript action and run the pure AppleScript.

-Chris

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Thanks for your comments.
Yes it is :joy: a "shell version" AppleScript，just incase someone want to use it in terminal or write into *.sh file.

Pure AppleScript is good enough.

tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
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