# \[bug\] Pritunl Windows client's system tray icon color is broken (dark icon under Light app mode)

**URL:** <https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915>\
**Category:** Pritunl\
**Tags:** pritunl-client\
**Created:** [December 22, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915 "2024-12-22T23:37:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/mdonatas/32/444_2.png) [@mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/mdonatas)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/1 "2024-12-22T23:37:12Z")

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In Windows 11 if one wants more color control for the Taskbar and window titlebar, it is necessary to enable dark mode with Light app theme.

Pritunl’s client apparently is not aware of such combination of settings and while all system icons are shown correctly in light mode Pritunl’s is broken (dark instead of light) and hard to see. Switching Pritunl’s theme to Light doesn’t help either.

Very likely broken in this release [Pritunl Client v1.3.4083.88](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-client-v1-3-4083-88/2615)

 ![image](https://forum-static.pritunl.com/original/2X/2/2a4a268058954023ac433e30dfad069cc4d5fc82.png)

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**Author:** ![zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/zach/32/1105_2.png) [@zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/zach)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/2 "2024-12-22T23:40:19Z")

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Before that release it was always a light icon, that release uses `electron.nativeTheme.shouldUseDarkColors` to switch to the dark icon for light themes. I may add an option to manually change it but currently there isn’t any option to override that.

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**Author:** ![mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/mdonatas/32/444_2.png) [@mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/mdonatas)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/3 "2024-12-23T19:07:52Z")

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Hey, thanks for looking into this. I’ve taken a closer look, checked-out previous icon and it seems a problem is not due to a bug in deciding which color icon to use but rather that the new icon has transparency which depending on the taskbar color can completely mess up how it looks.

Previous icon didn’t have a transparent `P` in it

 ![image](https://forum-static.pritunl.com/original/2X/a/a70af91e9721449b92c821c1c06fefc24a9475d7.png)

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**Author:** ![mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/mdonatas/32/444_2.png) [@mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/mdonatas)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/4 "2024-12-23T19:07:57Z")

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I am limited to 1 img per post… so here is another one

Disconnected before/after

 ![image](https://forum-static.pritunl.com/original/2X/e/e630182530d8e7c157059d2c36d5cfa92bf7d644.png)

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**Author:** ![mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/mdonatas/32/444_2.png) [@mdonatas](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/mdonatas)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/5 "2024-12-23T19:08:02Z")

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… and the last one

Disconnected in system tray

 ![image](https://forum-static.pritunl.com/original/2X/6/6ff83bc02c9023f82ef3060ff11aa8d6a9e3ba9b.png)

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**Author:** ![zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/zach/32/1105_2.png) [@zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/zach)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/bug-pritunl-windows-clients-system-tray-icon-color-is-broken-dark-icon-under-light-app-mode/2915/6 "2024-12-23T19:11:03Z")

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The color icon hasn’t been used in several years. There shouldn’t have been any changes to the light icon.