I have Windows 11 running in dark mode where window title bars are a very dark grey.
So why are the Cubase 12 window title bars white?
Kind of ruins the effect and hints at poor coding?
Anyone know any work arounds for this? - so I can restore my dark vibe
Poor coding? Seriously. Dark mode isnāt supported on Cubase Windows.
You can fiddle with the colors in Windows Settings, thereās a thingy for coloring title bars
What I mean is that, for example, all of Adobe Creative Cloud apps are fully Dark mode compliant - Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop etc. If they can do it why canāt Cubase?
The āthingyā for coloring title bars doesn,t exist any more - in Windows 11 you get darkmode, a background colour and an accent colour - all of mine are set to dark grey.
everybody stop what youāre doing ā¦ 
Thanks for your help StevieBeeā¦much appreciated
Ahā¦I hadnāt read that in any release notes? Have you got a link? Thanks
So I played with some settings:
Cubase 12 is recognising the Accent colour for Windows 11 Title bars - but only for the active window.
So I normally have main project window and mix console window open - the active one will have a dark title bar. The Inactive one will have a white title bar.
The main program menu at the top of the screen is always active so is always dark.
If I edit a channel - so the channel window pops up - the project and mixer title bars go white and the channel title bar is dark (because it is now active).
Itās like a built in light show when youāre working in a dark room 
I know itās not a deal breaker - but there has always been something odd about how Cubase uses windows to run different functions of the program which is demonstrated through this āproblemā.
Other complex software - e.g. Adobe donāt have this issue
Was kind of hoping it might have got fixed in C12 - hereās hoping for lucky C13.
Apart from this C12 is rocking on my machine - definite CPU performance gains and all rock solid for me!
I donāt know if Cubase can control the inactive title bar color, I think maybe it cannot. But if you like to edit the registry you can do this to control the inactive title bar color.:
Add a 32 bit DWORD to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
Name it: AccentColorInactive
Give it a value for the color you want, I use c0c0c0 which is in the gray family.
Step by step:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/32118-how-change-color-inactive-title-bar-windows-10-a.html
Can confirm, changing the registry color is the best way to do it. I set it to match the accent color over a year ago and its much more aesthetically pleasing.
Thanks Steve - I had already tried the regedit route. It certainly allows you to specify the Inactive window colour for most apps - however it doesnāt affect the Inactive window colour in Cubase 12.
This is why I think itās a coding thing - the inactive Cubase window always becomes white - regardless of the AccentColorInactive value?
Thanks for your help though!
Certainly it does, as evidenced by it working for me and for @dylanmixer
Hi Dylan,
I can see that it appears to be working for you. I wonder whether the fact that you are using two monitors is overcoming the poblem Iām having. What happens when you put the Project window and the Mixer window on the same monitor?
Have you double checked that you edited correctly?
Did you sign out of your Windows User or restart?
Needed a full re-boot to make it work in Cubase - It affected all the other apps without a re-boot!
Also doesnāt work if you set the inactive colour to 000000 - i.e. black, Cubase reverts to white again
Thanks for the encouragement guys!
Thereās a free little program called Winaero Tweaker which provides an easy way to change the color of Inactive Title Bars. And a lot of other possibilities. Itās a standalone application, no installation.
Duhhh , iāve been trying for weeks to sort this out , some silly blind bugger spell Color with a low case āCā . Cheers for this post 
Itās worth pointing out that the menu color itself in Cubase for Windows is hard-coded in areas around the text to light grey. While you can set the menu color to something different through the registry, Cubase will only honor parts of the color not around the text, so you get sort of a flat ālinux-likeā button effect to the menu.
While not a bug per se, it certainly does look like the Windows branch did not get as much UI love as it could/should have. This is especially true considering they just put out Cubase 13 with a UI overhaul of a lot more controversial areas.
Cubase Dev Team, can you make the main menu in Cubase for windows more consistent with styling for the button panel menus in the rest of the UI?
I agree. Mac users even have dark menus. Would be nice if everything white in Cubase could be changed to something darker to match Cubaseās overall dark vibe.
Just updated to 13 (windows). Cubase was never pretty, but 13 feels even worse, but ok ā¦ this might be a taste thing. But the UI has some legacy issues. The butt-ugly light blue backgrounds in the dialogs and the glaring white menues are one of those, but thatās not new ā¦ still ā¦ i hoped that they would actually do a little facelifting to make cubase look less like software from the early 2000s.
