Questions tagged [colors]
Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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What colors to use for accessibility?
I'm designing a logo for web and software (also reporting) entity. What I want is to make the logo the most accessible posible with colors, trying to choose the best color for normal and colorblind ...
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Data series in Layout and Format not matching?
I have a bit of a peculiar situation - I am trying to color multiple data series based off of slicer selections a different color. When all the data series (or multiple data series) are on the graph ...
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Changing background in Word 2010 doesn't change some text
When changing a Word document to display a black background (changing the page color), not all the black text changes to white. It happens on different sections of the document and even part way ...
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Word - find/replace highlighted text with shaded text AND preserve all other formatting?
I create new documents from source material that others send me, and use Word's built-in gray highlighting to indicate text in the source file that's been dealt with in the new document (equivalent to ...
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Atom Editor change bracket, brace colour?
I want to use the solarized-light theme for Atom Editor
I managed to change the background colour, and can't find where to change the bracket, brace colours
I tried .brace { color: hsl(168, 100%, 65%...
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How to setup in `~/.vimrc` a mapping for `colorscheme` to toggle `solarized` between `dark` and `light`?
How to setup in ~/.vimrc a mapping for colorscheme to toggle solarized between dark and light?
Both background and colorscheme in ~/.vimrc are badly misbehaving!
I have setup solarized to work on vim ...
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Different color scheme for monitor and printer with gedit
When I use gedit (the Ubuntu default text editor), I like to use a dark color scheme like Oblivion.
A problem I'm facing however is that when the documented is printed the result is not very ...
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External monitor has dark banding around colors
I'm not sure how to describe this phenomenon properly. However, my new Asus VX24AH shows dark borders/banding around coloured boxes or text. It is plugged into a Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro using ...
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Color variations when playing video files through media players
I am a Software Engineer and using a HP ProBook 4540s laptop. I have installed windows 8.1 (64-bit) for myself and all the drivers are up-to-date.
When I play video files (I checked *.mp4 and *.wmv ...
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iTerm2 color scheme not working
I have trouble setting up colors for iTerm2. I have already checked this answer and done everything it says:
Color scheme not applied in iTerm2
But iTerm2 does not show any colour, besides white ...
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Chrome devtools: How to change the touch emulation pointer shadow color
The devtools in Chrome/Chromium provide a device emulation for hand-held devices with touch screens. In this mode, the mouse pointer changes into a circular "shadow" to emulate a finger tip.
The ...
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256color terminal flickering in Konsole
I'm trying to setup 256 color mode at work for my Vim setup and it just refuses to work correctly. I'm using Konsole as my terminal emulator and my shell type is tcsh. I found a perl script named ...
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Can Windows 8 handle separate color profiles for multiple displays?
I'm currently using a laptop attached to an external monitor. I only ever use one of the displays at a time (external when at home, laptop when on the road). When I'm only using the external monitor, ...
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Can tmux display pretty pane corners?
I'm in the process of picking up tmux, and I'm sure I'll get used to it, but this pointy edge is bothersome.
Is there a way to make the corner flush, like this (fixed with gimp)?
I know that the ...
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Excel VBA - Conditionally format a cell using 2-color scale based on 2 values (max/min) on other cells
I'm trying to write VBA codes to conditionally format (2-color scale) cell A1 based on its value that between is >= cell A2 and <= cell A3. I'm using cells A2 and A3 so I can change the specific ...
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programmatic access to current xterm colors
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Programmatic access to current xterm background color?
Alex North-Keys provides a useful bash script that returns the background color of the current xterm. I'd like to use ...
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Mac Terminal theme - text-colors not working
I'm using the Mac Terminal more frequently and was using the Homebrew theme (green text, black background). Now I wanted to set a new theme which had different text colors. The one I tried using was ...
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Mac > Microsoft Word 2011 > changes shape color against my will
Do this...
create a new Word doc
draw a shape
remove all formatting from it except a single flat color
go to fill color in the ribbon & choose the "More Colors" option
bring up the "RGB Sliders" ...
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how to set .vim color scheme to vim editor OS X
I downloaded some .vim color scheme files in github and moved them by
sudo mv ~.vim /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors
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colorscheme ~.vim
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Why isn't a color profile showing up in the Color Sync Utility (Mac OS 10.9.5)?
I'm trying to use a color profile, which isn't showing up in the Color Sync Utility despite being present in ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles alongside other profiles that are showing up. When I open the ...
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Is it possible to replace default Windows color picker dialog?
I am using software like text editors or development tools that use default Windows color picker dialog. Is there a way to intercept somehow calls to windows color picker dialog and show custom dialog?...
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Change firefox menu color using userChrome..css
From my previous question, I have following content in my userChrome.css:
menubar, toolbar, nav-bar, #TabsToolbar > *{
background-color: rgb(102,66,60) !important;
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This changes the color of ...
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On Windows 8.1, how do you screenshot using the monitor's current color profile?
How do you capture a screenshot on Windows 8.1 that uses the monitor's current color profile? My screenshots always have to have a color profile applied in Photoshop to look the same as the desktop.
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I would like to batch change one colour in a group of PNGs. Mac - freeware software
I hope someone would be able to help me.
I have a group of icons in png format. They are all transparent backgrounds with one colour for the actual icon. I would like to change this colour in all of ...
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OSX Yosemite, change the finder folder color
Is it possible to change the ugly light blue of the finder's folders to another one ?
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How to give each virtual terminal in GNU Screen it's own background color?
I have a dream: I want each virtual terminal within GNU Screen to have it's own unique background color.
I think I can fake it in an .bashrc script that emits xterm control codes to set background ...
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Formatting of entire column based on the grand total using color scale?
This might be answered somewhere else, but I haven't been able to find a solution to this. The question is how to use color scale for entire column just based on grand total.
I have attached the ...
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Excel Conditional Formatting Colour Scales highlight group of cells when another cell is a certain value
So I have a document that has 2 drop downs with the first acting as a currency selection and the other acting as a discount selection (0% - 50%). Basically whenever I select from the dropdowns the ...
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ConsoleZ (Console2 Port) Change Background Color per Pane
I have downloaded ConsoleZ for paned terminal windows. I am wondering if anyone here knows how to set background colors per pane? For example, I might monitor apache2 errors.log in one pane and access....
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Batch window's colors are screwd up by Node.js and related commandline services
I run node.js from a batch file and whenever some command that has colorful output it screws up my batch window's default colors.
^ Here it's debug that does it, but any command that has colored ...
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RBG color variations from Publisher to Powerpoint
I created some graphics in publisher to use in a powerpoint presentation, however, when I place the graphics into powerpoint the colors (same RBG color as used in publisher) don't match. It becomes ...
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Dual Color Putty
How Can I / (can I even) allow for two color schemes in Putty? I want data received to be in one color, and transmitted data / commands be in a second color. Can I configure Putty to show data in ...
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Path slashes disappear on coloured bash prompt
So in my .bashrc, I set my prompt to be colourful by setting PS1 to
\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]$
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How to apply clut (Color Lookup Table) using ImageMagick command line
IamgeMagick dcouments its -clut option as "Replace the channel values in the first image using each corresponding channel in the second image as a color lookup table...This operator is especially ...
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Sony Bravia TV Color Saturation Broken After Macbook Air HDMI
Recently I bought a HDMI cable to connect my Macbook Air Retina to my Sony Bravia TV, which supports 1080p. The display transferred, but the color saturation is off. The saturation is more red and ...
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Windows 8 / 8,.1 Desktop colour issue
I seem to be having a major issue with Windows 8.1, which I think I had on Window 8 too.
Apps in Desktop mode have really bad colour issues. The red is way over the top and the edge of skin colours ...
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Windows 8/2012 Change Menu and other colors
Is there a way to change the background color of menus in Windows 8 or the highlight color when you roll over a menu?
I looked and I can't seem to find a way to do it. Do I need to install something ...
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I need help calibrating color across multiple programs
I have recently gotten a new computer, and I am having trouble calibrating the color. Up until this point, the color in the web browser is accurate, and continues to be for most images, but I am ...
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userContent.css - GMail Compose Same Color as "about:blank"
I have some code in my Firefox userContent.css that sets the background color for the about:blank page. However, the about:blank color also seems to apply to the text area background for creating ...
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How do I turn off quoted string coloring in emacs 24.3.1
If I edit any random text file in GNU emacs 24.3.1 in fundamental mode, it tries to match quotes and change the color of the text between them. This is fine if the file contains English text, but I'm ...
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Eclipse syntax coloring for C / C++ comments
When writing C/C++ code in eclipse, is it possible to set up the syntax colouring in such a way that it displays comments starting with /** in another colour than normal multi-line comments (starting ...
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How to set a color for macros inside emacs?
I would know if it is possible to set C/C++ macros to be a specific color when the files are opened in emacs.
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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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How do you set a laptop's screen color profile to 9300k in Windows 7?
I have a large LCD monitor in which I have set on 9300k color. I like this profile a lot and much prefer it over the default 6500k profile but I have no idea how to set my laptop to it as well. The ...
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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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Get average image from video
In Ubuntu 10.04, is there a program that I can install (or is pre-installed) that can get the mean color value of each pixel from a video.
The purpose behind this is to see if the result of getting ...
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ubuntu virtual console screws up colours in X11
Whenever I use a virtual console on my machine, then return to the graphical environment, colours stop displaying correctly. At first I thought it was just displaying at a lower colour depth, but the ...
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Is it possible to automatically invert picture colors in LibreOffice using macros?
I was looking for a tool/extension/build-in abilities to invert picture colors automatically (via macro) in LibreOffice and how to do it, and posted the question here.
Then I just discovered Invert ...
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Excel custom function with IF and cell color
I need help with maybe custom function for excel.
Everything is in the picture: (Yes, I know that COLOR=YELLOW is nonsense, but its just example of what I think it could solve it).
Basically ...
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Vim colorscheme not displaying properly
I realize that questions about Vim colorschemes have been asked quite frequently, but I believe I've tried the advice in all of them and I can't quite seem to get my colorschemes to work. That being ...
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