From f75038abf4a341dea6c2d8aae644713f53211bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:20:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Draw the borders of inactive windows in faint text

The borders of inactive windows are drawn in the terminal's default text
color, so they are as prominent as the text inside the windows. Draw
them in faint text instead. The terminal shades faint text toward its
background, so this works on dark and light backgrounds alike, and also
on backgrounds that are neither black nor white. The titles of inactive
windows use the same color, so they are dimmed too.

Terminals that don't support faint text draw the borders in the default
color, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs-master/Config.md     | 2 +-
 pkg/config/user_config.go | 2 +-
 schema-master/config.json | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs-master/Config.md b/docs-master/Config.md
index 3fb2ba655..6d8f2fe10 100644
--- a/docs-master/Config.md
+++ b/docs-master/Config.md
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ gui:
 
     # Border color of non-focused windows
     inactiveBorderColor:
-      - default
+      - dim
 
     # Border color of focused window when searching in that window
     searchingActiveBorderColor:
diff --git a/pkg/config/user_config.go b/pkg/config/user_config.go
index 98a4a16c9..f4d00cf60 100644
--- a/pkg/config/user_config.go
+++ b/pkg/config/user_config.go
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ func GetDefaultConfigForPlatform(platform string) *UserConfig {
 			Theme: ThemeConfig{
 				ActiveBorderColor:          []string{"green", "bold"},
 				SearchingActiveBorderColor: []string{"cyan", "bold"},
-				InactiveBorderColor:        []string{"default"},
+				InactiveBorderColor:        []string{"dim"},
 				OptionsTextColor:           []string{"blue"},
 				SelectedLineBgColor:        []string{"blue"},
 				CherryPickedCommitBgColor:  []string{"cyan"},
diff --git a/schema-master/config.json b/schema-master/config.json
index 00b398c17..9b6383a7a 100644
--- a/schema-master/config.json
+++ b/schema-master/config.json
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@
               "uniqueItems": true,
               "description": "Border color of non-focused windows",
               "default": [
-                "default"
+                "dim"
               ]
             },
             "searchingActiveBorderColor": {