Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).

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HP LaserJet Always Uses Color

I have an HP color LaserJet CM1312nfi. It always seems to use color toner even if I'm printing black and white text. I looked through the settings but I couldn't seem to find anything relevant.
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Change gridline colour or style in MS Word 2010

How can I change the colour or style (solid line or dots, as in The Gimp) of the document gridlines shown using View > Gridlines (not table gridlines) in Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007? I can change the ...
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Avidemux changes colors in my video?

I'm just using avidemux to crop some video that has black borders, but for some reason, the colors change horribly the minute Avidemux gets hold of the footage. Before: During: After: 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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Print a color document on a B&W printer, with good color separation

I want to print a PDF document converted from Word by Adobe Acrobat Pro. It has some figures containing colors that when I convert to black & white are distinguishable but after printing by a ...
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My monitor is only displaying in black and white in Windows Vista

My monitor won’t display in color, the laptop displays in color but my external monitor shows up in black/white. I have checked all cables.
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Program used to find the HexCode of a given color

I was wondering if there is a program that could take a color that you have, and return the hex code for it. I have been trying to match the color against samples online but still haven't found the ...
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Fork processes in a script using different colors for each process output

I have a script that operates on 4 folders. Because they are completely independent, I'm passing in the folder path to a function and then forking that function. It works, but the output to the ...
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Greenish printing in grayscale mode

I have a HP OfficeJet 7310 printer at home. It's about 6 years old and still functioning... "good". Good quoted because I recently noticed that grayscale prints result a little "greenish". Greys look ...
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Can I import another users calendar into Outlook 2010 and maintain his color highlights?

I am importing a colleagues complete Outlook 2010 calendar (sent by mail as .ics file). However, all coloring is lost: categories, automatically formatted entries, etc. are not visualized in my ...
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Terminal emulator with custom color palette

I'm trying to get more colors in the terminal emulator. Mostly to get prettier syntax highlighting. I've googled quite extensively for a terminal emulator that supports 24bit colordepth and that ...
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sRGB and AdobeRGB color spaces

They say that AdobeRGB has more colors than sRGB color space. What do they mean? Should they both have 16,777,216 colors (because they're both RGB color spaces)??
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Apple Preview and Chrome Color Profile Accuracy?

I have been having some issues with understanding how Apple's preview deals with Colour profiles. I have noticed that when viewing a standard sRGB image on my Dell u2711 or Macbook Display that the ...
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Monitor calibration icm profile vs color settings?

We bought a Dell U2713H monitor, and because of the price tag we thought it deserves a calibration, so I asked for it. This is the first monitor I bought calibrated, I always thought these are just ...
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Colored copy of PuTTY window

I need to copy colored text from PuTTY window without losing color information. Console is in UTF-8 mode. What is the best method? Any parsable output will do.
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Dark font for R in notepad++

When I go into the style configurator in Notepad++ and change the theme to something darker, like obsidian or monokai, all of my R files are monochromatic. In the default white theme this is not the ...
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How can you invert the colors of a PDF?

I need to invert all the colors of a PDF document (background, text, graphics, and images). I want it persistent in the file so the inverted viewing options, that some viewers offer, won't help. ...
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Auto-adjust (dim) the color scheme of the monitor at night? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Adjust screen brightness automatically at night Some days spending a whole day in front of the monitor may be more strenuous on the eyes than desirable. In order to ...
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OSX: Possible to export iTerm2 profile to Terminal.app?

I'd like to use the same font/color arrangement in Terminal.app that I currently use in iTerm2. What is the easiest way to export font/color settings from iTerm2 and import them into Terminal.app?
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Convert color photos of documents to good black-and-white (bitonal) images?

Since I don't have a copier or scanner, I'm using an 8 megapixel camera to copy documents. This works pretty well except they need a lot of processing afterward. I'd like to get from a photo to a ...
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Browser extension or userscript that allows user-specified custom highlighting of web pages?

Recently I've found I have a need for a web browser enhancement that provides functionality for the user to define certain fields of certain web pages or sites to receive highlighting in various ...
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How to change Aptana's “(){},.:;” operator's color

on Aptana's menu windows > preferences | aptana studio > themes there are many elements, such of console, hyperlink, invisibles, comment, constant, entity, keyword, storage, string, support, ...
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Create a full excel color palette from 3 colors

My company has a color scheme consisting of 3 colors. In RGB: Blue: 25 176 230 Green: 180 213 83 Gray: 129 130 133 (Please don't judge the choice of colors, they are not my choice!) I need to ...
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Specifically define colors of bars in histogram

See updated question below!: (1 Old stuff) I have the following code: clear reset unset key # Make the x axis labels easier to read. set xtics rotate out # Select histogram data set style data ...
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In vim, change color of splits without the cursor

How do I modify my custom colorscheme to make splits which do have the cursor change to a different color (I want to change the splits other than the one I am currently editing to be a muted gray ...
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how to tweak an entire color pallete at once?

I've got a CSS theme that I like. It consists of perhaps a dozen colors that all go well together. There is a "cornerstone color" that the rest are basing off of - lighter, darker, complimentary, etc. ...
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Gnome 2.3: change background color for buttons / active window in tray bar separately?

I recently tuned Debian to look more like Ubuntu by switching to Ubuntu fonts and installing the dark Ambiance theme. However, the color for the active window is way to light and makes the title ...
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Google Chrome displays some gray jpgs with pink overlay

The problem appears on site http://ui-cloud.com/ and a lot of other. If I save the image from the site and open it in some image viewer app, then image displays correct. Also all other browsers in ...
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Visual Studio colors mess up

Every once in a while, Visual Studio decides to mess up my colors. This is what happens: It should look like this: I'm not sure what is causing this, but I hope someone else has experienced ...
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Asus Windows 7 laptop's external monitor has a yellow tint

I bought an Asus G73S laptop and plugged in my old monitor but noticed it had a yellow hue. At first I thought it was the cable but figured out that if I went to display settings and used the ...
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Ubuntu purple terminal colors in ConEmu

How to set up Unubtu-like terminal colors with purple background? Inspired by this question: Ubuntu purple terminal colors to iTerm2. The answer is some tricky, because terminal background is not one ...
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emacs --no-window-system customization

I'm using emacs -nw as my editor on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. However, the --no-window-system does not use the colors of the terminal. QUESTION How could I change the default colors of the emacs ...
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How to change the colour of the WildMenu background?

I want to change the colour of the WildMenu background but I don't know which highlight group I need to specify. WildMenu is the highlighted state of whichever item you have selected, not the ...
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Linux terminal colour highlighting?

I'm wondering if it's possible to apply a customised highlighting scheme to linux terminal output, outside of the application that's generating the output. (Therefore, piping the output to some kind ...
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GIMP: change the exact color on the image - OK, but transparency disappears

There is no problem for me now to change color for pixels of the same color: I click on "Select by Color Tool"(Ctrl+O). The pixels of the same color are selected now. Then I press Ctrl+,. The selected ...
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Configure browser colors without breaking sx.com sites functionality

Two screenshots will illustrate this. Those are from Iceweasel (sort of Firefox) but any browser that would solve this is of interest.
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Hexidecimal color value to web-smart color

Anyone know of a tool which can convert a standard hexadecimal color value to the closest possible web-smart color?
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Low profile On-Screen Color Grabber? [closed]

I'm looking for a program that will allow me to grab colors from on screen, something that won't bother me or effect performance if it's running constantly in the background. What this is for: is ...
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How can I make the icon font color on a windows 7 prof desktop work?

I have C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Scenes\img25.jpg as wallpaper (I think it's a standard windows wallpaper.) The desktop icon font color is white. It cannot be read without heavy eye pain. I want it to ...
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How to set window color by hex code in Windows8?

In Windows8 you can set window color from following path Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Color and Appearance This has some predefined colors and a Color Mixer option. ...
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vim coloring for git

I'm on Windows and my vim loads with a terrible colorscheme with vim. The message is blue on black (so I can't see what I'm typing). I need to change the colorscheme, but :colorscheme slate doesn't do ...
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256 Colors in Terminal over SSH on OSX 10.6

I am using either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04 and trying to SSH into OSX 10.6. Using Vim color schemes, I can emulate the colors on xterm-256 color on Linux and gVim on Windows. However, I would 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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Can I convert an image from CMYK to RGB in Mac OS X?

Is there a way to convert a JPEG from CMYK to RGB, using Preview or any other tool built into Mac OS X? I see I can go to Tools | Assign Profile… and select from a long list of options, including ...
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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. ls -l ...
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Laptop colors changed. Everywhere

Everything was good, but today when I turned on my laptop HP ProBook 4320s, power button, wifi button, hdd led and Screen - everything went from clear white to white-purple. Has anyone any ideas?
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Mac OS X: How to change the color label of files from the Terminal

Is there a way I can set the color label of a file to some color when in the Terminal? I know that the following command lists some info about what the color currently is, but I can't figure out how ...
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Unable to change Excel cell font or shading colors.

6/15/2012 I'm having the same problem as a previous user's query (linked below) wherein I can't change the font or cell shading color on an Excel spreadsheet. I've confirmed that the cell/spreadsheet ...
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black and white pages not recognized by printer

I have a document which has color on about 25% of its pages. When I print it in the copy shop, the printer's technically supposed to recognize the b/w pages. However, all pages are registered as ...
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What influences colour display?

I have a website which consistently displays differently when opened in two windows of the same browser. With “differently” I mean that one version of the website uses different colours. Here’s a ...

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