How to set dark the IntelliJ title bar

Also works in PHPStorm, Pycharm, Rubymine, DataGrip…

IntelliJ window with the title bar set to black

Update 2018/07/25

JetBrains just released the new IntelliJ IDEA version, with an easier way to set dark the title bar.

You only need to go to Settings/Apparence & Behaviour and check the Use dark window headers box. 👏

So, you have the Darcula theme on a JetBrains IDE and you’ve realised that there’s something that doesn’t really fit… Don’t panic, there is a solution since the version 2017.3!

First, we need to open the IntelliJ Registry. To do that, we should just hit theCmd+Shift+A shortcut in order to search for the IDE actions, type registry, and select the “Registry…” option.

Now, inside the IntelliJ Registry window, we need to find the ide.mac.allowDarkWindowDecorations key and activate it:

Restart the IDE… and voilà! We have set our title bar to dark 😬!

If you prefer to see the step by step in a short video, there you go!

I guess that the JetBrains IDEs will have a simpler way to do this in a near future, but meanwhile, this is how to change it.