Menu Themes

Kando supports theming the menu. Themes use CSS to style the menu and can change the look of the menu drastically. Below you can find some examples which show how different themes can look.

Clean Circle

One of Kando’s default themes.

Neon Lights

One of Kando’s default themes.

Minecraft

This is one of the community themes from the Kando Menu Themes Repository.

Rainbow Labels

One of Kando’s default themes.

Installing Menu Themes

Get themes online!

Kando comes with a few themes pre-installed. You can find more themes in the Kando Menu Themes Repository!

A menu theme is a directory containing a theme.json and a theme.css file. If you want to install such such a theme, you should put it into the menu-themes directory. The location of this directory depends on your operating system:

Windows

%appdata%\kando\menu-themes\

macOS

~/Library/Application Support/kando/menu-themes/

Linux

~/.config/kando/menu-themes/

Flatpak

~/.var/app/menu.kando.Kando/config/kando/menu-themes/

You may have to create this directory.

If the menu-themes directory does not exist, you can create it yourself.

Thereafter, you will need to restart Kando to see the new theme in the menu settings.

Selecting a Menu Theme

You can select a theme in the settings menu. To open the settings menu, click on the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the menu.

For each theme, you can also set some custom accent colors. Kando also supports dark mode: You can choose to use different themes and accent colors for light and dark mode.

Do you want to create your own themes?

There’s a guide on how to create your own themes available!