VSCode renderer background not changing with style

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#503 opened on Dec 14, 2022 2 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 42/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: jupyter-notebook, vscode
Domain: data-visualization, frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in the VS Code renderer with a dark plot style, then read the related matplotlib/ipympl issue for context. The work is done when the renderer background matches the normal VS Code background or the selected plot style consistently.

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Description

Describe the issue

switched to dark plot style, background isn't changing. Ideally it would just match the normal vscode background, but copying the plot style would work too

Versions

3.9.12 (main, Apr  4 2022, 05:22:27) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
ipympl version: 0.9.2

Selected Jupyter core packages...
IPython          : 7.30.1
ipykernel        : 6.6.1
ipywidgets       : 7.7.0
jupyter_client   : 7.1.0
jupyter_core     : 4.9.1
jupyter_server   : not installed
jupyterlab       : not installed
nbclient         : 0.6.4
nbconvert        : 6.5.0
nbformat         : 5.4.0
notebook         : 6.4.12
qtconsole        : not installed
traitlets        : 5.5.0

Known nbextensions:
  config dir: C:\Users\TeamD\.jupyter\nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension enabled 
  config dir: C:\Users\TeamD\.conda\envs\subgame\etc\jupyter\nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-matplotlib/extension enabled 
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension enabled 
      - Validating: ok
      - Validating: ok
      - Validating: ok

Jupyter command `jupyter-labextension` not found.

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