Is it even possible to change the colour theme using the CLI? I went through the doc but could not find anything that matches this requirement.

I am working on a personal project where I am adding a cron job to switch the theme of my computer.

CodePudding user response：

It's not possible to change settings using the code command, but instead you could use sed to edit settings.json like so:

sed -i -e 's/"workbench.colorTheme": ".*"/"workbench.colorTheme": "Visual Studio Dark"/g' "$HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json"

• "workbench.colorTheme": ".*" is the regular expression (regex) to replace.
• "workbench.colorTheme": "Visual Studio Dark" is the replacement string. Change Visual Studio Dark to your desired theme.
• $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json is the path to your settings.json