Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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How do I change the color vibrance/saturation with Intel graphics on my laptop?
The nVidia control panel has an option to adjust the saturation and other properties of the image shown on the screen. Is there any way to do this with the Intel Graphics driver? My laptop model is a ...
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How to disable EMACS - Prelude colors? (terminal)
I've used PRELUDE to work better in terminal, but I'd love to work with my default Terminal theme(colors).
Zenburn-theme comes default with Prelude but It just work great the first time i run emacs ...
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How to work around the missing desktop background color management of Windows 7?
After I have calibrated my monitor most programs honor the color management: Windows photo viewer, Firefox, Chrome, Lightroom, Gimp. But Windows itself especially the desktop background ignores the ...
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How to change the colour of a png image in any adobe software
I have a logo that is a process color and I need to change it to a pantone colour. The only way I could change the colour was if I live traced it but I lost some detail. So I was wondering if there is ...
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Change Windows XP's system colors
I'm looking for a program that lets me change the system colors in Windows XP. I'm talking about the colors in classic mode, not "Luna"-style themes.
I'm trying to set a darker theme but to make it ...
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Can f.lux's automatic behaviour be overridden?
I found out about f.lux when someone mentioned it on another question here on SU that I happened to stumble upon. I've been using it ever since because it's a simple, original, useful piece of ...
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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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Does f.lux affect DirectX video games?
Does f.lux affect the color temperature of DirectX video games?
I appreciate what it does on the desktop, but I'm not sure if I want it on in a game.
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is it possible to change vim's scrollbar color in windows?
That is by putting some command in .vimrc file ? I cannot find it anywhere, everytime I search I got posts how to hide the scrollbar not how to color it.
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CSS-targeting the white page that Chrome displays for a split-second while loading
When you click on a link in Chrome to go from page x to page y, for a split-second it displays a white empty page. I want to make that page black so it won't hurt my eyes.
Now, I'm a fresh graduate ...
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Change Window Title Text On Windows 8?
I would like to change the color of the window title text on:
Windows 8 Professional x64
With all Aero features enabled
On the desktop (not in MUI mode)
Have tried various existing solutions for ...
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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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Git color ui uses green for both deletions and insertions
When enabling git color ui, the only color used is green. So in git diff I get green for both deletions and insertions. The same goes for git status where untracked files and unstaged files show as ...
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System text background discoloration
I open my computer, hold my cursor over the wireless icons, the text for both Windows and Lenovo wireless preview has a blue and green background. Same with the right click menu (on the desktop), all ...
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mysql command line color prompt
mysql command line color prompt:
I want to add colors to my MySQL prompt:
I have so far in a script (database.sh):
mysql -uroot -hlocalhost -A --prompt="\u@\h:\d> "
I would like root to be ...
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Adding highlight to ubuntu terminal
My current terminal looks like this:
I know that I can change the font colour and the background colour, but I wanted to know if I can make the words be highlighted according to what they are ...
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Can I alternate row shading but also give columns colors in Excel?
I'm fairly inexperienced with excel, but I know how to both color a column in a table and also setup a table with alternating rows. What I am trying to do is have alternating row shading in a table ...
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Change XTERM change background color without clearing the screen?
Is there a way to change the background color an an xterm window without clearing the screen? I want to have a prompt that changes the entire screen's color, but I don't want to clear the screen
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ZSH Completion colors and OS X
Consider this minimal .zshrc :
export CLICOLOR=1;
export LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad; # It is the default value on OSX, so this line can be omitted
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
zstyle ...
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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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Sending special bash characters to a custom function
I read this great article on customizing the bash prompt:
http://blog.superuser.com/2011/09/21/customizing-your-bash-command-prompt/
I also read about using 256 colors in bash:
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Less and Grep: Getting colored results when using a pipe from grep to less
I use the --colour option of grep a lot, but I often use less as well. How can I pipe grep results to less and still preserve the coloring. (Or is that possible?)
grep "search-string" -R * --colour | ...
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Hack Chrome to show its internal pages with black background
I love using my computer with light-on-dark themes on as many programs that allow it. That is, I love it when the background is black and the text is grey-white. It's much easier on my eyes.
I'm very ...
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How to change the background color of a single page in Word 2010?
I can easily change the page color of every pages in my document thanks to the Page Layout Tab in the Ribbon, but I would like to change the color of a single page.
Any idea about how to to this with ...
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Visio 2010 creating boxes around text
I recently installed Visio 2010 and spend a lot of time modifying diagrams. I have a large design with multiple colored text and lines in shapes. I can highlight everything and change the text to a ...
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Incompatibility regarding color parameters in OpenCV
I must use RAW 8 color Mode for my project, according to some research it's having 8 pixels per bit, and it has got 3 channels since it's a color image that I want to display. The project was OK when ...
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VIM colors in terminal look very dry
I've been trying out a few different vim color schemes but none of them ever look like the picture (they seem very dry, not as colorful). I have tried messing with all the "profile preferences" on ...
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In vim, background color changes on scrolling
Occasionally I get a weird error with the background color in vim when scrolling up in a long file. The background over the text is correct, but everywhere there is no printable character the ...
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Change foreground color of an image in Paint.NET
Let's say we have this picture:
As you can see, the background color is #2A3D78. The foreground color is #94AEFF. Ultimately, I'd like to get a picture where the background is unchanged, but the ...
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Can I provide RGB hex strings in an Excel worksheet for pie chart colors without using code?
Like user1813558 in his question "Change the pie chart colors" I would like to choose the colors that Excel uses for a pie chart (indeed for any chart) as I need them to be consistent with other data ...
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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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Problems with showing right colors
I'm using Corel Draw X6 on Samsung SyncMaster P2370HD. When I open some CDR drawing, colors are not displayed properly on the monitor. E.g. HEX code for white is not #FFF, but #FFFCDB (I've made ...
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Getting Rid of White Flash in Windows 8 High Contrast Mode
I am trying out Windows 8 and I see white flashes whenever I open a tab (and immediately switch) in Firefox. In Windows 7, I was able to get rid of this by setting the Application Background color to ...
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urxvt settings - reload without restarting terminal?
I have two urxvt color themes that I use, one for light background and one for dark, depending on how sunny the environment is.
It's easy enough to switch them by modifying ~/.Xresources and running ...
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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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Prevent emacs shell-mode to apply string-face to output lines containing a colon?
Inside shell buffers, lines not starting with a space and containing a colon character have the following text properties:
face font-lock-string-face
Does someone knows if there is ...
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Colorize ls-output by filetype [duplicate]
Every once in a while I have to list some files (~20-50) in Bash on Linux || Mac.
These files are from four different filetypes.
ls nand2tetris/myChips/
And16.hdl And16.cmp And16.tst ...
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PuTTY + Ubuntu 12.10: why do I have no colors unless I use screen?
I am accessing a new Ubuntu 12.10 installation via PuTTY. I am attempting to get my shell to display in color. Color works fine in interactive applications like vim, but I want to get color in e.g. my ...
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byobu + screen colors headache
I have byobu installed on FreeBSD, with the users, uptime, load average, cpu count, cpu freq, mem available, mem used, date, and time notification modules enabled, in that order.
No matter what I do, ...
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RGB to CMYK in Gimp, what i'm doing wrong?
I'm trying to convert image from RGB to CMYK in Gimp, tried to search for answers, but couldn't fine one that would work for me, or I missed something important.
My preferences of color management ...
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Count BW / color pages in PDF
I have a 100 page PDF document that I need to print.
My print shop needs to be told which pages contain color.
I don't want to scan manually.
Is there a program that detects pages with color and can ...
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Change color of active textbox?
I restarted my Windows and suddenly all my textboxes are grey.
How can I restore them to white?
I know it's the color 150 150 150 (0x969696) but I can't find anything in the registry with that.
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Swapping color gradients with Gimp
I have a logo that I would like to use on a shirt that has a black to white gradient throughout the logo. Since the shirt may end up being blue and the color printed on the shirt yellow, I want to ...
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google chrome's context menu colors [duplicate]
Since the last google chrome update the context menu selection color changed to a color that is very similar to the same menu color. I can't see the selection well now.
Is there any way of changing ...
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Xubuntu 12.04 Changing midnight commander colours
I used to be able to change the colour set for midnight commander, by changing the "colour string" in the ini file. It seems now that in xubuntu (Xfce4) mc's colour set is determined by some other ...
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Getting the predominant colour in an image?
Is it possible to get the predominant colour in an image from the command line? Ideally I'd like it back as hex or RGB.
I thought it might be possible to do this with imagemagick's identify command, ...
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Vim: Broken colors on start
I'm using uxterm and vim with the following .vimrc: https://github.com/dbrgn/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
When I open a file in vim and don't push any key, colored text is rendered using bold font and ...
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How can I use custom colours in the Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (VB6) editor?
I found a great answer to this from user "Bond" here:
How can I use custom colours in the Microsoft VBA editor?
but it doesn't completely work.
As described in the answer linked above, I edited my ...
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PDF viewer that can invert all colors (not only text)
Because I am reading lots of pdfs from the screen, the white background make my eyes tired. Is there a decent lightweight pdf reader that can invert colors of everything on the page?
I have tried ...
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Flicking of white page when opening a new page in firefox (high constrast mode)
I am using high-contrast mode in Windows 7 x64. All the background opens in black, but just before the page loads, the page is full of white. Can I change it to black instead?
On a side note, I also ...
