Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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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 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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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? [closed]
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 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 ...
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How to check terminal color capability from command line?
I write:
$ infocmp -1 xterm
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colors#8,
bold=\E[1m,
blink=\E[5m,
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$ tput -Txterm colors && echo OK || echo err
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OK
$ tput -Txterm blink && echo OK || echo err
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Google Chrome print preview defaulting to black and white [closed]
Every time I print in Chrome 13, I have to click Color because it defaults to black and white.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Does anyone have a fix?
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Is there a palette app with a movable glass to convert text color code into a color?
I have a text with #000000 colors, and I'd like to move a rectangular glass over it and see the color.
It'd be helpful if I could rest the glass, choose another color in the app and have the text be ...
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How to change color in a line drawing
I have a SVG drawing with black foreground and white background.
What is the easiest way to change foreground to white and the background to transparent (in InkScape or similar free program)?
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I would like to highlight/shade table cells in two colors
This does not seem like a possiblility unless I can highlight the text in a second color. Can I add more highlight colors to the options available?
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“Reset” colors of terminal after ssh exit/logout
When I ssh into a remote server, I like the colors of the terminal to change. I use setterm on my remote ~/.bashrc file to get this done. However, when I exit, the terminal colors are not reset to the ...
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OSX Lion terminal lost all colors
I recently upgraded to Lion only to find that Terminal.app (and iTerm2, which I actually use instead) have totally lost all colors. This means no syntax highlighting in Vim, no colored directory names ...
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ANSI Colors & Syntax
Is there a mapping of ANSI colors to their syntax in a given shell?
For example, in BASH, Blue seems to be Folders and Green seems to be executable files.
Does a list exist for what ANSI colors mean ...
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Is there a way to alter the colors used in TTY consoles on Linux?
By "alter colors", I mean something like change black from #000000 to #111111, and by "TTY console", I mean what you get when you do Ctrl+Alt+F1 from X11, not a terminal emulator like xterm or urxvt.
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Control CSS color for windowtext in FireFox?
I use a KDE theme with dark menus and white text. In Firefox (5.0), under Preferences->Content->Colors I have black text and a white background chosen. I have "use system colors" unchecked.
I ...
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Should I embed the sRGB color profile in JPEG files?
I have a large (growing) collection of scanned images. They are TIFF files, mostly 48 bit with the Adobe RGB color space. This color profile is integrated in the files. When such a file is opened in ...
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In photoshop 7, how can I change the color of text that has already been saved as an image
I have a photoshop file which is a bunch of text but it was saved as an image (so I can't use any of the text tools to change it).
Its basically black text and I want to change it to purple.
I tried ...
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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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How do I disable text shadows in Firefox?
I normally turn of colors and read the web with a gray background. Some sites use text shadows, for example Askubuntu, which results in white borders around letters that make the text hard to read.
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Laser printer prints black perfectly but cyan magenta and yellow very badly
I got a color laser printer that was previously used in an office environment. It's a Xerox Phaser 6100. The black toner gets applied perfectly to the printouts but the colors don't work at all. See ...
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GIMP: Colors change when I open a gif as layers rather than as an image
I've got a 3-color gif image (#FFFFFF, #3B5AA3, #BE0027).
When I open it as an independent image in GIMP, it renders fine.
But when I open it as layers for another image (or copy the layer from ...
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Why isn't Internet Explorer respecting any stylesheets?
This question is not about my own computer, but a shared computer that I sometimes manage. It seems one of the users changed some setting so now every webpage you visit looks just plain wrong. I've ...
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Printer issue with Konica Minolta C253 - print outs look different
We're having an issue in our office with a printer, and it's got me a little stumped.
Two different users, when printing the same document with the same graphics to the same printer, see a different ...
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Terminal, vim and ssh color problem
I'm using vim for my editor. I've problems about the colors of vim. The same colorscheme of vim gives different outputs in terminal, ssh session and screen. I learnt they've different colors(16, 88 or ...
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Terminal Colors: Substitute Dark Blue for Another Color
Is it possible to "globally" substitute a terminal color somehow in OSX? In particular, I find that the dark blue is really hard on the eyes as demonstrated here:
I'd love to be able to kick this ...
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Changing Label Colors on Documents and Files in OS X
This question has probably been asked before, but I didn't understand the answer.
Is there any way to change the color on labels of documents and files, the way the older version of Macintosh ...
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Apple 27 inch Cinema Display has blue tint when connected to NVIDIA/Intel, “normal” when connected to ATI
My 27 inch Apple Cinema Display has a blue tint to it when connected to my laptop, which uses Optimus (NVIDIA + Intel). I believe the Intel actually handles the output signal in all cases, and the ...
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GIMP - change color of object preserving feathering
I have an .xcf image and I like to change the color of some objects within it. The objects are mostly one solid color with the edges feathered into transparency. I.e. all pixels in the object are ...
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Dual monitor color calibration
I'm trying to get my monitors (two different models) to look the same. I've been fiddling with the gamma/brightness/color channels in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but I can't make them look exactly the ...
