Linux color scheme

Is there a way to change the app's color scheme on Linux? My mom always told me not to look in to the sun ;-)

Also, did I just forget that there was a Linux version or is that relatively new?

I just realized I skipped over it because the option is disabled. It says "Themes are not supported in the Lazarus release". Is there any other release for Linux?

Yea your mom has definitely a point here! ;)

The Linux releases started with a preview phase one year ago, and now we have a quite stable and feature rich v12.15. I'm happy to provide a more European software approach now, binaries which don't involve Microsoft. Especially wrt the current American administration.

Regarding your dark colors issue - the Linux releases should work out of the box with a dark system color mode. But there are some issues with the GTK2 and QT5 version - you may try the QT6 build to see if that fixes it.

Here's a fresh GTK2 screenshot, watch out for the unusual black column headers which have text painting issues when resizing. Apart from that GTK2 seems ok to me:

I admit apart from that I cannot be of much help here, as I'm still new to most Linux distributions, window managers and that stuff.

Awesome! It is looking great! Glad to see the progress on multiplatform support. I can only imagine the work involved. :-O

I got sick of fighting Windows and am now running Linux on my work computer. Very glad for Linux support! I can start migrating back to HeidiSQL as it matures. Right now I am using it to execute huge SQL files without loading them in to an editor. HeidiSQL is great at that.

I'm on Kubuntu (KDE window manager). I'll give the newest version a try.

Alright. The GTK version was still light. But the QT5 version is loaded up with the dark theme out of the box for me :-)

Thanks for your feedback!

If the text colors are badly readable in dark mode, there are settings for that in Tools > Preferences > SQL. Also I added a quick switch in Tools > Color Scheme > Dark Scheme