Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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256 color support for vim background in tmux
while using vim within tmux I can see that 256 color support is enabled. with $tput colors
However changing the colorscheme in vim while in tmux will change the colorscheme on a per line basis but ...
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OS X Terminal command to change color themes
Is there a command that can be used to change the color scheme of the Mac OS X Terminal? I like the idea of being able to change colors depending on scripts I run. So far I am just changing the color ...
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Adjust PDF Contrast with Adobe Reader/Acrobat?
We get PDF's from our professor to read for homework but they're often scanned documents, is there a way to adjust the contrast of the text to make it easier to read?
Edit: I've got Photoshop but is ...
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Change the white background in webpages to another color
I'm currently using a dark theme in firefox. It looks really nice, but many webpages use a plain white background. The resulting contrast is a little unpleasant and sometimes hurts the eye when I ...
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How can I apply a color-scheme (.el file) in emacs?
I have downloaded zenburn.el that is a color-scheme for Emacs, but I don´t know how I can apply it to emacs. I am a beginner in emacs.
How do I apply my .el file to emacs? Can I do some linking from ...
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How can I find out if a PNG file is 24 bit color or 32 bit color on Mac OS X?
I have PNG image files on Mac OS X. How can I find out if an image is 24 bit color or 32 bit color?
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Set PuTTY's appearance in Windows
Is it possible to configure PuTTY to have me some nice colour scheme like vim's desert?
I'm an PuTTY user under Windows and my login shell is tcsh. The current PuTTY theme setting is a very boring ...
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Gimp: change one colour to another?
Simple to explain: possibly not so simple to do.
In Gimp, I have a green button GIF image: it shades from dark green to light green, against a transparent background.
I would like to change it to ...
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Red and blue are swapped on Youtube
Since Sunday (April 1st), red and blue are sometimes swapped when I watch videos on YouTube.
Examples are "Peeling Apple Like A Boss" (blue arms and apple) or, to my dismay, the famous Red vs. Blue ...
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color coding mac terminal
how do i get the mac terminal to display colors? i.e. in fedora when i use ls it color codes the results based on if it's a file or folder. similar results on mac?
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48-bit colours?
Quite often, especially in X11-related things (X resources, Roxterm themes, etc) I see colours specified as 48-bit numbers: #2e2e34343636, #cccc00000000 instead of the usual 24-bit #2e3436 and ...
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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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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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Mac OS X: Is there a straightforward way to color ls output according to Finder label colors?
I have a client with a directory tree that has a number of high-level directories that I need to have on my local development machine. I rarely look at them unless something goes awry.
I've marked ...
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Colors differ in the dual monitor
I use a dual monitor.
The colors appear entirely different on the new monitor than they do on my laptop.
When you are selecting colors etc, to be included in a website design, it totally freaks me ...
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How to change the background color in SumatraPDF reader?
How to change the background color. I would like to change it to something easier to read, is there an option to change this anywhere?
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What multifunctional printer has good support for Mac OS X? [closed]
I would like to buy a multifunctional color laser printer (printer, scanner, copy machine). However as I am new to Mac I don't know which brand has good driver support for Mac OS X.
I have connected ...
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1answer
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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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In excel, cannot figure out why background color for a cell will not change?
Ok, so I inherited an excel workbook full of excel forms to modify. I am not the original author of the form. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it wont let me change the background color of ...
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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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Conditional Formatting of a Cell Based on Color Value in that Cell in Excel
Is is possible to format a cell based on one component of the RGB value inside of it. For example, let's say I have 3 cells - A1, A2, A3. In A1, I want the cell color to be the shade of red anywhere ...
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futurama bash scheme
Is there a color scheme for the BASH shell that matches the blackboard colors on futurama?
(If it matters, I'm on OSX.)
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How can I swap colors with GIMP?
I have made an image with three colors: RGB
I want to swap each channel to a specific color. Is there a way to do that efficiently with GIMP?
Example:
I would like:
Blue: #434343
Red: #EEEEEE
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1answer
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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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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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How to reset system colors
I'm using Linux Mint, MATE version. I have a weird problem that occurs quite frequently when scrolling down through log files in terminal: the machine pauses for a second or two, and when it comes ...
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Good Color Picker Tool that runs in the background?
I am in search of a color picker software running in the background. ( like SnagIT )
As I am investing a lot of time in design right now, I need to pick colors from the desktop/websites and mix new ...
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Configure Windows 7 to show all windows in black and white
I have difficulty viewing different types of colors.
Many would call it a color impairment, because when I see to many colors my brain gets overloaded. I would like the following for Windows 7 How ...
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1answer
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Mac OSX: Cannot color broken symlinks
On my linux machine, you can tell intact symlinks from broken ones, because broken ones are colored red. I've tried to set this up on my mac by adding some configurations to PSCOLORS in my ...
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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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How to get colour variations
I've got a colour scheme based on this link http://colorschemedesigner.com/#0141EmAMqnBmd
I need a total of 6 colours divided into 2 groups based on just two of the outlined colours below. Apologies ...
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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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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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Mac OS X Terminal: How can I make my pico editor syntax highlight?
I recently changed my Mac OS X Terminal colors.
How can I enable syntax highlighting for pico? Or any editor in general?
