<p>I prefer dark backgrounds for coding, and I've downloaded a jar file containing an IntelliJ IDEA color theme that has a dark background. How do I tell IntelliJ about it?</p>

[{'answer_id': 39214, 'author': 'Hates_', 'author_id': 3410, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3410', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Take a look here: <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/configuring-third-party-tools.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Third Party Add-ons</a></p>\n\n<p>You <em>may</em> have to extract the jar using a zip application. Hopefully inside you\'ll find a collection of XML files.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p><a href="http://plugins.jetbrains.com/?idea" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IntelliJ IDEA Plugins</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 280699, 'author': 'nevster', 'author_id': 36510, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/36510', 'pm_score': 8, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Go to File->Import Settings... and select the jar settings file</p>\n\n<p>Update as of <strong>IntelliJ 2020</strong>:</p>\n\n<p>Go to File -> Manage IDE Settings -> Import Settings...</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 5460506, 'author': 'MalsR', 'author_id': 657970, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/657970', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Interesting I never spent too much time adjusting the colours in IntelliJ although tried once. </p>\n\n<p>See link below with an already defined colour scheme you can import.</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4414593/where-can-i-download-intellij-idea-10-color-schemes">Where can I download IntelliJ IDEA 10 Color Schemes?</a></p>\n\n<p><a href="http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-1154" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-1154</a></p>\n\n<p>Download the jar file, file import the jar where you will see a what to import ;)</p>\n\n<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qf4Q1.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 23292020, 'author': 'Alexander Suraphel', 'author_id': 1242842, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1242842', 'pm_score': 6, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Do <code>File</code> -> <code>Import Settings...</code> and select the settings <code>jar</code> file </p>\n\n<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Go to <code>Settings</code> -> <code>Editor</code> -> <code>Colors and Fonts</code> to choose the theme you just installed.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 49256413, 'author': 'Bartek Lipinski', 'author_id': 1993204, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1993204', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you just have the <code>xml</code> file of the color scheme you can:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Go to <code>Preferences</code> -> <code>Editor</code> -> <code>Color and Fonts</code> and use the <code>Import</code> button.</strong></p>\n\n<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PsEDU.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PsEDU.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 55166293, 'author': 'ihebiheb', 'author_id': 1546137, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1546137', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Like nearly everyone else said, go to file -> Import Settings.</p>\n\n<p>But if you don\'t see the "Import Settings" option under the file menu, you need to disable 2 plugins : IDE Settings Sync and Settings Repository</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fEWyd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fEWyd.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 57894293, 'author': 'Akshoy', 'author_id': 9169461, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/9169461', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Go to Settings => Plugins => Search Plugins in Marketplace</p>\n\n<p>Search by <code>material theme</code> and download and restart it. it is a good theme. </p>\n\n<p>In the market place, you can also search by <code>theme</code> and it will list all the themes and you can download any themes. You no need to find themes and download and import it. You can also remove the theme very easily. thanks</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 61304535, 'author': 'Shahriyar', 'author_id': 8738937, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8738937', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Themes downloaded from <strong>IntelliJ</strong> can be installed as a Plugin.</p>\n<p><strong>Follow these steps:</strong></p>\n<pre><code>Preferences -&gt; Plugins -&gt; GearIcon -&gt; Install Plugin from disk -&gt; Reset your IDE -&gt;  Preferences -&gt; Appearance -&gt; Theme -&gt; Select your theme.\n</code></pre>\n'}, {'answer_id': 62467585, 'author': 'Gazz', 'author_id': 8318675, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8318675', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Find the .jar theme file in your disk. Drag the file into PhpStorm window and voila !</p>\n'}]
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