microsoft / microsoft/vscode

Microsoft account sign in isn't properly dark themed so it flashes black to white repeatedly -- giving me a headache

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Description

### Description

I use the dark theme (to avoid the brightness of the light theme) but the Microsoft account sign in UI is not properly dark themed so it flashes a bright white image many times a day giving me a headache. See the screenshots. The secondary bug is that I have to repeatedly sign in multiple times a day instead of it being saved: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/316881. This is when signing in for the Azure DevOps MCP server.

### Issue Details

Item|Value
---|---
Issue Category|Bug
Target|Visual Studio Code - Insiders
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.134.0-insider (0f3c3b53028901b912211a99b23232b76017bcfc, 2026-08-13T18:02:30Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

System Info

Item|Value
---|---
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.134.0-insider (0f3c3b53028901b912211a99b23232b76017bcfc, 2026-08-13T18:02:30Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
CPUs|AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (32 x 2445)
GPU Status|2d_canvas: unavailable_software
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VENDOR=Microsoft, DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875 *ACTIVE*
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875
GPU2: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8875
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: disabled_software
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: disabled_off
rasterization: disabled_software
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: disabled_software
video_encode: disabled_software
webgl: unavailable_software
webgpu: unavailable_software
webnn: unavailable_software
Load (avg)|
Memory (System)|127.95GB (47.47GB free)
Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id a69cc171-5b51-40e5-8ee2-86a28162322c
Screen Reader|no
VM|0%
Remote|WSL: Ubuntu-26.04
Remote OS|Linux x64 6.18.33.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Remote CPUs|AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (32 x 0)
Remote Memory (System)|94.29GB (75.45GB free)
Remote VM|0%
Remote|WSL: Ubuntu-26.04
Remote OS|Linux x64 6.18.33.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Remote CPUs|AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (32 x 0)
Remote Memory (System)|94.29GB (75.32GB free)
Remote VM|0%
User Agent|Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.134.0-insider Chrome/148.0.7778.280 Electron/42.8.1 Safari/537.36
Installation pure|true

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It flashes black -> white -> black -> white -> black

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