DarkModeToggle 🌙

Set the MacOS Dark Mode status.

Includes an optional menubar icon and a Hammerspoon console toolbar item.

Installation

1) Download & Install Latest Release of Hammerspoon

• Manually: Latest Hammerspoon release
• Via Homebrew:

brew install --cask hammerspoon

2) Download & Install the DarkModeToggle Spoon:

• Download: https://github.com/AlejandroRoman/DarkModeToggle/raw/Master/DarkModeToggle.spoon.zip
• Installation: Simply double-click to unzip and then double-click the resulting DarkModeToggle.spoon file to move it to your ~/.hammerspoon/Spoons directory

3) Edit the ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua configuration file

• Copy/paste the text of one of the sample implementation scripts (below) into your init.lua configuration file. Then reload/restart Hammerspoon.
• For more elaborate/customized implementations, the API for this spoon is fully documented in detail below.

Example/Sample implementation(s):

Toggle Dark Mode by clicking on icons in status menu or HS console toolbar:

hs.loadSpoon("DarkModeToggle")
spoon.DarkModeToggle:statusMenuIcon(true)     -- show icon in status menu
spoon.DarkModeToggle:consoleToolbarItem(true) -- show toolbar item in HS console

Configure key binding to toggle Dark Mode:

hs.loadSpoon("DarkModeToggle")
-- Toggle Dark Mode with ⌘ + ⌥ + ^ + D
spoon.DarkModeToggle:bindHotkeys({toggle = {{"ctrl","option","command"},"d"}})

API Overview

• Methods - API calls which can only be made on an object returned by a constructor
  • bindHotkeys
  • consoleToolbarItem
  • darkMode
  • isSystemDark
  • statusMenuIcon
  • systemDarkMode
  • toggleDarkMode

API Documentation

Methods

bindHotkeys

Signature	DarkModeToggle:bindHotkeys(mapping) -> nil
Type	Method
Description	Binds hotkeys for DarkModeToggle
Parameters	* mapping - A table containing hotkey modifier/key details for one or more of the following key value pairs: - enable - Enable System Dark Mode - disable - Disable Dark Mode - toggle - Toggle Dark Mode
Returns	* None
Notes	* The action performed by the toggle Dark Mode binding is based on the curent setting of the system, which is the same as the value returned by systemDarkMode() * The mapping table is a table of one or more key-value pairs of the format: command = { { modifiers }, key } where: - command is one of the commands listed above - modifiers is a table containing keyboard modifiers, as specified in hs.hotkey.bind() - key is a string containing the name of a keyboard key, as specified in hs.hotkey.bind()

consoleToolbarItem

Signature	DarkModeToggle:consoleToolbarItem([visible, [index]]) -> boolean/spoon/nil
Type	Method
Description	Query or enable the visibility of this spoon's toolbar item in the Hammerspoon console.
Parameters	* An optional boolean indicating the state of the toolbar item's visibility. * If the visibility parameter passed is true, an optional index specifying the position where the toolbar item should be placed.
Returns	* If no parameters are sent, a boolean indicating the current visibility of the toolbar item. * If the visibility parameter is specified, returns the spoon object itself or nil if an error occurred.
Notes	* If the visibility parameter is set to true and an index is not specified, the spoon's toolbar item will be placed at the beginning (leftmost) position of the Hammerspoon console's toolbar items.

darkMode

Signature	DarkModeToggle:darkMode([mode]) -> boolean(s) or spoon object
Type	Method
Description	Get or set the current state of the Dark Mode theme for following three targets simultaneously: * The macOS system for the current user. * The Hammerspoon console. * The Hammerspoon preferences panel.
Parameters	* An optional boolean, specifying whether Dark Mode should be enabled (true) or disabled (false).
Returns	* If a mode is specified, the method will return the DarkModeToggle spoon object. * If no mode parameter is passed, this method will return three booleans indicating respectively the Dark Mode status for each of the three targets listed previously.

isSystemDark

Signature	DarkModeToggle:isSystemDark() -> boolean
Type	Method
Description	Get the current state of the system's Dark Mode theme.
Parameters	* None
Returns	* True if the system is currently set to Dark Mode, false otherwise.
Notes	* This method is a simply a wrapper of hs.host.interfaceStyle() except it returns a boolean instead of "Dark"/nil.

statusMenuIcon

Signature	DarkModeToggle:statusMenuIcon([visible, [enableDropdown]]) -> boolean/spoon/nil
Type	Method
Description	Query or set the visibility of this spoon's status menubar icon.
Parameters	* An optional boolean indicating the state of the status menubar icon's visibility. * If the visibility parameter passed is true, an optional booolean indicating if dropdown menu functionality should be enabled (true). Default value is false.
Returns	* If no parameters are sent, a boolean indicating the current visibility of the menubar item. If the visibility parameter was specified, the spoon object itself or nil if an error occurred.

systemDarkMode

Signature	DarkModeToggle:systemDarkMode([mode]) -> boolean or spoon object
Type	Method
Description	Get or set the current state of the Dark Mode theme for the current user of the macOS system.
Parameters	* An optional boolean, specifying whether Dark Mode should be enabled (true) or disabled (false).
Returns	* If no mode parameter is passed, this method will return a boolean indicating if the system's Dark Mode theme is enabled. * If a mode is specified, this method will return the DarkModeToggle spoon object.

toggleDarkMode

Signature	DarkModeToggle:toggleDarkMode() -> spoon object
Type	Method
Description	Toggle the current state of the Dark Mode theme for following three targets simultaneously: * The macOS system for the current user. * The Hammerspoon console. * The Hammerspoon preferences panel.
Parameters	* None
Returns	* The DarkModeToggle object.
Notes	* The target mode of the toggle action is based on the current Dark Mode state of the operating system.