Background always dark after upgrading to OSX Big Sur

[AnthonyChiavelli]

• VSCode Version: 1.51.1
• OS Version: Big Sur (11.0.1 (20B50))

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Upgrade to Big Sur (11.0.1)
2. Wait some time (or maybe just until your first post-install system restart)
3. Open vscode and try to use a light theme

Basically, the background colors remain dark* no matter what theme is chosen, while the text and highlight colors correctly update. As a result, light themes are unusable (since they typically feature dark text, expecting a light background). My system is set globally to light mode, and this problem did NOT start happening immediately after my Big Sur upgrade, it took a day or two.

*Aside from being dark, the backgrounds are semi-transparent (only when not in a full screen window, and when focused)

I've seen the recent dark font issue, and this almost seems to be an inverse of that.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[AnthonyChiavelli]

Update: Upon opening a new project, my background colors have now become grey, except my current line, which is rendered white....

EDIT: This actually seems to happen consistently: when I open a new project via file menu (vs the default project the window opens with), the backgrounds are shades of gray:

[deepak1556]

Does stating code with --disable-gpu help ?

[AnthonyChiavelli]

It does not :(

[deepak1556]

Can you try forcing a color profile following #106756 (comment)

[AnthonyChiavelli]

Just tried, none of those worked

[itkfm]

Just tried, none of those worked

There's a chance that --force-color-profile <value> is somewhat be broken. For me it seems to always produce the same result as putting "force-color-profile": "srgb" into argv.json.

See: #106756 (comment)