Background color of plot pane

[csap9871]

Hi,

I used RStudio with a dark background color and the Modern RStudio theme.
Everything was perfect, meaning all panes (and buttons etc) were dark except for the plot pane, which had a white background color (which I liked, because I can see the plot correctly).

Yesterday, I ran a bunch of updates on my machine (including RStudio) and all of a sudden, the background color of the plot pane is dark as well. That means, the plots are almost unreadable.

I know that I can manually draw a frame around each plot and fill it white, but that's super inconvenient to do for every plot! I also know that I can use the Classic RStudio theme, but then all buttons etc are white/gray, which I also don't like.

Is there a way of going back to the appearance as it was?
Below is a screenshot.

Thanks for any help!
Best wishes,
Flo

[andresrcs]

Hi, welcome!

On what operating system are you? What is your version of RStudio?

FWIW, 1.2.1335 versions, both desktop and server, work as expected on windows 10, ubuntu 18 and debian9.

[csap9871]

Hi,

oh that's weird.
I'm on Linux Mint 19.1, which is basically ubuntu 18.
My RStudio Desktop is on 1.2.1335 as well.

Do you have an idea what else might be causing this behavior?

I get a white background if i click on 'Zoom'.

Thanks for your thoughts!

[andresrcs]

@csap9871

Do you have an idea what else might be causing this behavior?

Not really, but I can think on a couple more things to try

• Change theme apply and change back.
  
• Reset RStudio`s State

Resetting RStudio Desktop's State

[kevinushey]

Just to confirm -- do you see this with all plots, even e.g. plot(1)?

[csap9871]

Thanks a lot for your guys' help and thoughts!

Just to confirm -- do you see this with all plots, even e.g. plot(1) ?

Actually, it ended up being an update in our internal plotting routine where the background color was changed to 'transparent'.
Sorry for not having thought about that possibility earlier!