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**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 11:38am

Language: JavaScript. The same scheme is used. The situation repeats with any color scheme.
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**jfcherng** · July 1, 2021, 11:36am

Syntax colors are controlled by color schemes, not themes.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 11:39am

@ jfcherng
I meant color scheme.
I haven’t set anything in both cases.

**jfcherng** · July 1, 2021, 11:50am

So I suppose you have tried the ST4 default color scheme: Mariana?
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ST4’s Monokai works for me too. So I would guess you either

using a 3rd-party JavaScript syntax
have built-in color scheme overridden

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 11:57am

I need https://github.com/matkl/Monokai-Black
Seems that manually installed schemes stopped to work correctly.

**jfcherng** · July 1, 2021, 12:27pm

Yes, some scopes have been changed in ST 4. Hence some color schemes won’t work well, especially for those old ones.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 12:21pm

Then maybe it is worth to add backward compatibility (like usb 2.0 / usb 3.0)?

**jfcherng** · July 1, 2021, 12:28pm

I think it will unlikely be done since “changing scopes to make them more standard among syntaxes” is intentional.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 12:41pm

How to make the background in ST4’s Monokai totally black?

**bschaaf** · July 1, 2021, 12:48pm

Through the command palette you can do “UI: Customize Color Scheme” and set the "background" global to whatever color you want.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 4:25pm

Thanks. It is an acceptable workaround.
Is there a way to change this color and the form of tabs (it was trapezoid before)?
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**OdatNurd** · July 1, 2021, 9:56pm

	// Controls the style of file tabs for the Default, Default Dark, and
	// Adaptive themes.
	// Options: "rounded", "square"
	//   The value "angled" provides the tab style from Sublime Text 3, but is
	//   only compatible with the Default and Adaptive themes, and will not
	//   support new features like inactive pane dimming.
	"file_tab_style": "rounded",

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 10:19pm

Ok, thanks. What about the color?

**OdatNurd** · July 1, 2021, 10:23pm

If you want different colors tabs you need to use a different theme.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 10:37pm

I mean not tabs, but the color (to which the arrow points) on the above image.

**OdatNurd** · July 1, 2021, 10:59pm

The whole look of the application with the exception of the colors used for syntax highlighting comes from the Theme; that includes the tab bar background.

**oleedd** · July 1, 2021, 11:17pm

Ok, so what is the name of that parameter?

**OdatNurd** · July 1, 2021, 11:22pm

It’s tabset_control I believe; theming documentation is available at https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/themes.html#elements-tabs.

**oleedd** · July 2, 2021, 12:59pm

It says “Unable to find tabset_control”.
I use Default Dark.sublime-theme.

**OdatNurd** · July 2, 2021, 1:07pm

Default Dark inherits from the Default theme; you’ll find the tabset related theme items there if you want to copy them into your own theme customization and adjust them.

What happened with the highlighting?