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Dreamweaver CS5+Edit CSS - What to do to have color preview like at text color? And ask about highlight?
I have problem to. In css panel I can see background color only in HEX, not like in text color in small cube with current color... What to do to have color preview like at text color?? Please help.
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less emulate a TTY to preserve piped color output
When you pipe something through less, the program usually discards color codes because it's not outputting to a TTY. So you have to add --color=always to the options for it to work.
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Making the active window in vim more obvious
My workspace is normally one very big xterm with vim, split into six or more buffers. It would be really helpful if it were more obvious which one was the active buffer. Right now I'm using the ...
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Visual Studio 2010 looks like Hot Dog Stand
This is what my Visual Studio 2010 window looks like. Obviously not ideal.
I used to have C# 2010 Express installed, all was fine, something happened, and then the colors went like this. I ...
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transformation to match color profiles between two photos
I have a set of photos X taken with camera 1 and a set of photos Y taken with camera 2 of the same objects. I want to find a transformation such that when I apply it to a photo Xi, the output will be ...
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White color is not white in Windows Picture Viewer
Recently bought new monitor. And connected it with HDMI. No new monitor extends my laptops in-built monitor. There is 1 problem with white color (all other colors are awesome)
This is how Windows 7 ...
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How to change background color of line highlighting during debug process in Netbeans?
how to change background color of line highlighting during debug process in Netbeans?
Tried to change "Highlight Caret Row". No success. It only changes bg color of line where cursor blinks, but ...
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Netbeans color scheme settings
Trying to create Sublime Text environment in Netbeans editor.
The screen below is before moving cursor into any "path"
And after
As you see, bg color of multiple instances changed.
The ...
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Arch Linux: colors from terminal in bash script?
In addition to ArchLinux - yaourt: save updatelog?
With tee I am able to get the output at a file and at the terminal at the same time.
But when I execute yaourt -Syu | tee yaourt.log in a bash file ...
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Colour-code terminal windows by host
I regularly work on different hosts using ssh, and I sometimes get confused about which computer I'm running commands on. I've occasionally come close to issuing halt(8) commands to the wrong host.
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Is it possible to change linux terminal color whenever I am connected (ssh) to another machine
I would like to have my terminal colors changed whenever I am connected (through ssh) to another linux machine.
This way, I know that I am putting commands in a remote computer just by looking at ...
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Text editor to colour code rich text format (Rtf) commands
Is there a program which can read and colour code Rtf code in its text editor? Notepad++ supports the coloring of many languages such as C++ or Javascript, but Rtf isn't supported (it's not exactly a ...
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CMYK conversion from RGB
I have several RGB images that I have to convert to CMYK for a paper submission. I have a Photoshop Elements 9 license but it doesn't support CMYK.
I remember having tried with ImageMagick on Linux ...
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An application to easily pick a color in Mac OS X and get the hex value
I'm looking for a way to easily pick a color from anywhere on the screen in Mac OS X and get the value as a hex code (like #ACC782 ).
OS X has a built in system "color picker" and I found a ...
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Vim colors not working properly in terminal
I'm using gnome terminal, and vim with solarized color theme. When I open vim in the terminal, it's illegible.
But when I open a file in gvim, the color scheme works perfectly.
Gnome terminal's ...
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Reset Aquamacs colours
I'm not quite sure how, but when I start Aquamacs now, the background is black with a yellow cursor and white text. Being a beginner to Aquamacs, its hard for me to tell what's gone wrong.
Above ...
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Fooling a program to think the Windows XP theme is different
I love using light-text-on-dark-background color schemes for as many programs as I can.
However, I don't use a light-on-dark theme for Windows XP itself, because many Windows programs do not play ...
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How can I make terminal Vim look as good as MacVim?
I'm using the same color scheme for Vim both in the Terminal and in MacVim, but they end up getting totally different colors.
Terminal:
and MacVim:
Why is this happening? It does this with ...
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cannot correct color on external monitor
External monitor color is different from internal display.
I have a Lenovo W520, 4270CTO, built July 8th, 2011, Win7 Pro, i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHZ. 8GB DDR3-SDRAM (1333MHz) Samsung memory, laptop ...
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16 color terminal (console, no X) only shows 8 colors?
I've been using Arch Linux on my new laptop and I'm trying to configure it such that I don't have any need for a DE or X server -- I just want command line utilities and a VC (productivity and saving ...
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How can I change the color of a BSOD?
I know that its possible to change the Windows boot themes, and logon backgrounds...
Is it Possible to make an orange BSOD (or a OSOD)?
I'm trying to prank one of my friends, and I though this would ...
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How to change the background color of a transparent desktop image on Mac OS X?
Under Desktop & Screen Saver I have selected to show a PNG image with transparency on my Desktop. It looks like this:
The transparent area shows the exact same color that is listed as the first ...
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What is the formula for NVIDIA's digital vibrance? And what is the advantages over a simple saturation boost? [closed]
I was thinking: Now that we have loss less display<->videocard transmission methods (DVI, HDMI) it should be possible to find out what their formula is. Why isn't it public? Seems like a really ...
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What colour is the dark green on 'old fashioned' green screen computer displays/VDUs?
I'd like to make my text editors display like the old skool white-on-green VDUs of yore that I can just about remember from my childhood. I have this idea they might be easier on my old eyes.
I was ...
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How to color highlight text in a black/white document easily
I am editing a 96 chapter book. The text is in normal black letters on a white background. What I want to be able to do is:
I want to have any changes or additions automatically shown in another ...
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OS X Terminal using default ANSI colours for every theme
For some reason, every theme I palette I've had installed for the OS X Terminal.app has reverted to using the default ANSI colours. The themes have been working fine up until this point and I can't ...
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Why does code pasted from Visual Studio to Word and from Word to Gmail keep colors?
Why, if I copy code from Visual Studio directly into Gmail, all styles are removed but if copied first to Word and then from Word into Gmail then all styles including fonts and color are kept?
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How do I change the login screen colour or background in Windows 7?
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium at home and Professional at work.
How can I change the colour and/or the background image of the lock/login screen? I'd like to set it to something nicer than the ...
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How to apply software display calibration while running F.lux?
I got great results from doing software calibration with Color Management in Windows 7, but F.lux resets the profile to its own every second. Is there any other way to calibrate the display that works ...
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Why does Chrome print portions in color, even though I print in black and white?
The document I want to print uses a blue color for paragraph headings. Even though I click on "Black and White" as my printing choice in Google Chrome 15, the document is printed exactly as it appears ...
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Is it possible to change the UI color of a single program in Windows 7?
I know it's possible to set the global UI colors in Windows 7 via the system preferences. But is it possible to set a different UI color scheme just for one program?
I am asking, because I'm using ...
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Change Status Colours in Microsoft Office Communicator
I'm colour blind and can't easily tell the difference between the 'away' and 'available' colours used to show contact status in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.
Is there any way to change the ...
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How to preview css color codes in Dreamweaver CS5?
Editing some css code. If I delete the '#' sign the color widget pops up allowing me to select a new color. But I'd like to know how I can see what color 'e9f4fa' is. From within the dreamweaver cs5.
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Changing colors of linux command line mode
I've recently installed an ubuntu 10.04 server LTS and found out that it looked more attractive to me. Is there a way to get the same coloring mode on CentOS 5/6?
Also, the current user@host on ...
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How can I change the color of a Putty session based on the directory I'm browsing?
I'm not interested in a definitive change of colors for Putty (or terminal), but in a color specific change based on the directory I'm currently browsing, especially to avoid big mistakes between two ...
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Mac text editor that can colour chunks of code?
I'm an avid Textmate user and for the job I'm working on could really do with highlighting large chunks of code. It's a proper soup at the moment and it would be great if I could highlight a chunk and ...
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Terminal / Editor themes for colourblindness?
I "suffer" (not really) from a difficult-to-diagnose form of colourblindness. It generally corresponds with red-green colourblindness, but there are some quirks. There's a definite cognitive element ...
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Why is everything blue?
Okay, I think a screen shot can best explain this. It happens on everything. Seemly toolbars in any application really.
Mostly Microsoft ;).
any solutions on how to fix this would be great.
Its ...
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How to optimize colors for video projectors?
as I am doing my first conference talk, I want to prepare as best as I can. I often encounter problems that make my images looking on laptop/workstation screen perfect, but you can't see anything or ...
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How do I change the RGB colour of objects in GIMP?
Some background: I am attempting to do some web design as a hobby. I am now at the point where I want to start introducing some texture to the site, and Tileables seems useful.
The readme in the ...
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Is there a way to change the Windows default color picker?
I have to keep entering custom colors by hand and its a pain! There has to be a better way to do this -- especially on applications that are using the default color picker...
Anyone?
From any third ...
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How can I copy the hex color code of whatever pixel my mouse is hovering over?
I am looking for some powertoy or shortcut or software that will allow me to quickly copy the hex color code (I.e. #ff0000) from whatever I currently have my mouse over on the screen. does this exist? ...
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How to copy KMail config? / How to make kmail fix its own config?
So, the default colour scheme of kmail is unusable on my system, and I want to copy the colour scheme and settings from another system. The problem is that the folders and accounts are in the same ...
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How to fix color profile issue in Vista on headless PC?
In Vista (and W7 too?), there is a known issue that can crop up which impacts the color profile when viewing images in Photo Gallery (and elsewhere). The MS solution (see here) requires setting the ...
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How can I achieve separate colors for current, local, and remote ref names when using a custom git log format?
I have a custom git log format that I use. I have color.ui=true set in my .gitconfig. For example this simple format:
git log --pretty=format:"%h %d %s" --decorate
This would print something like
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256 colors in Vim, OS X Lion
Since OS X Lion the terminal.app is xterm-256color terminal. However vim is rendering only 8 colors. I tried the 7.3 supplied with Lion and 7.3 that is terminal version of MacVim.
Vim Wiki sais I ...
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Using colour schemes with vim and putty
I am trying to use the desert color scheme with VIM 7.0 on CentOS 5.6 x64 located here:
http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.vim
I've downloaded the file and saved it in my ~/.vim/colors ...
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Firefox addon for showing color hex and border dimensions
Is there an addon where I can click on an element and it will tell me the color hex and the dimensions of the border? Simply put, I have an image with a border that's a certain color, and I need the ...
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Why do applications that present color palettes sometimes restrict the colors to shades of gray?
I've noticed that sometimes on OS X, Adobe Illustrator's color palette only shows shades of gray rather than a full range of colors. If this occurred in Photoshop, I'd immediately assume the document ...
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Changing colors of emails in Outlook 2007 - based on replied to status
My manager would like to have any emails he hasn't replied to or forwarded within 24 hours of receipt to turn yellow and then red if he hasn't dealt with them within 48 hours.
I've gone through the ...
