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Sakellaris

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Jul 24, 2014
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How to Use Only Dark Menu Bar and Dock in Mojave

1. Go to System Preferences > General and select Light for Appearance.
2. Launch Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes


3. Log out of your user account and then log back in
4. go to System Preferences > General and select Dark for Appearance.


You’ll see your menu bar and Dock switch to the Mojave Dark Mode, but everything else should stay in the traditional Light mode.

if you want to revert to Full Mojave Dark Mode
Launch Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool false
 
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JokerPower

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Aug 12, 2017
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but everything else should stay in the traditional Light mode

Not actually

After this fix, notifications and Finder looks terrible

How to restore notifications to HS light mode?
defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No

How to restore Finder to HS light mode?
defaults write com.apple.finder NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes; killall Finder

There is also an app for dark menu/dock
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t5bDPTeebq6tzsQUDk-C9sAgRlSPbg50/view?usp=sharing
 
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