A theme is a package of graphical specifications, such as colors and iconsets, used to customize the appearance of a UI.
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Windows 8 Color Settings (Window Title)
In Windows 7, the window title's color (by default black, to see the title in the title bar fire up Windows Media Player for example) is stored in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Colors] ...
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Excel 2010 shows different cell fill colors depending on Windows Appearance Settings
I just noticed something very strange. I created an Excel workbook in Excel 2010 (Windows 7) and manually formatted alternate rows with slightly different colors. When my colleague opened the ...
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How to modify Chrome newtab.css from within a Chrome theme?
I want to modify the CSS for new tab page. NOT make new tab page. I already made a new tab page, but many users installing my themes won't also install the new tab page extension. So I want to modify ...
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How do I get a usable colour scheme for Windows 8? (more like Windows XP)
On Windows XP (and earlier) there was a difference between dialog background and input fields: The former were a shade of gray, the latter where white. On Windows 8 there seems to be no option to ...
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How to get Windows 8 Release Preview Aero lite Theme in Windows7?
So, I find myself liking the default wpf theme for the aerolite visual style in Windows 8 RP
After a little digging, I found a few files called
PresentationFramework.Aero2.ni.dll.
I was ...
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Gtk3 theme development tips
I've started adopting the default Ubuntu Ambiance theme for my needs, but I find it a very cumbersome process. As soon as I change my theme and load it, it also gets cached so any further changes ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 forgets desktop theme
I am running Ubuntu in VirtualBox (on a Windows 7 host). Several times now, the top-level menu bar, the task bar — and seemingly every system dialog — have forgotten the out-of-the-box "Ambiance" ...
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How can I make all GTK+ apps on Windows pick up themes from the same folder?
I have several GTK+ apps installed (pidgin, GIMP, KeepNote et al) and I also have GTK2 themes installed separately in one location. However, picking/selecting a theme from the GTK+ theme selector does ...
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How to create custom themes for Windows 7?
I know there is a program called Vista Style Builder, but does anyone know of any free programs that work in a similar way?
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Can't use default Terminal theme on my MacBook Pro Lion
I have my terminal settings like so:
On startup, open: New window with settings - Pro
In settings I have the "Pro" theme selected as "Default"
However, every time I open the terminal it will open ...
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What does the “Themes” service do in Windows 8?
I stopped the "Themes" service in Windows 8, but didn't notice anything.
What does it do?
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How to patch themes files to get custom themes working?
I'm on Windows 7 build 7601 x64, and I've tried everything to patch my uxtheme.dll, themeservice.dll, themeui.dll with different patchers – like Universal Theme Patcher – but nothing helps.
I am ...
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How to compare or read Windows7 themepack files (application display issue)
I have a .NET WinForms application that is behaving oddly with the DELL Windows Theme. When the application title bar is maximized via double click or the maximize button, the text in the title bar ...
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Free Bootskin + Logon Screen Software
I need some free tool to edit/create logon screens and boot screens for my Windows XP.
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Right Column of Windows 7 Start Menu is transparent across all themes?
I've had this problem for awhile now, and I don't know how I did it.
Take a look at this picture:
As you can see, the right column is transparent, and it shows as this across all my regular and ...
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How can I make Windows 8 use the classic theme?
The answers I've seen are themes, which only give me the colours and not the appearance/performance of the UI; in addition, I want to keep Metro.
Basically this:
Instead of:
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Emacs -nw color-theme and terminal transparency
I'm using M-x load-theme to load color-theme-solorized from the marmalade repository and it works and gets the color correct. The problem I'm having is that if I run emacs -nw in gnome-terminal that ...
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How do I get current icon theme name in linux?
Im writing small TODO applet for conky in lua. Id like to display small icon next to task, which matches current icon theme.
I have already read which icon to look for on freedesktop.rg.
How to get ...
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Is there any potential vulnerability in using an unsigned theme on Windows 7/8?
Assume the patching utility is trusted. I'm trying to understand whether this limitation is a matter of Microsoft controlling branding or an actual security concern.
As an aside, the hoops I have to ...
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How hard it is to make Firefox themes usable in Seamonkey?
I find it very odd that for SeaMonkey there are so very few themes available.
(Half of which are not working with the latest version, and the rest look like they were made in the former century.)
Is ...
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Changing the Google Chrome “link preview” bar?
In Google Chrome, when you hover over a link, a small bar pops up on the bottom-left of the screen that tells you where the link takes you. I've installed a theme, and I like the theme, but I want to ...
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Load a theme for Aquamacs from the .emacs file
I managed to choose various themes from within Aquamacs but the problem is that if at some later point I have an error in my .emacs then the theme's setting is broken. Therefore I decided to load it ...
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How do I get the colors from Windows 7 “Classic Theme” in Windows 8?
I've tried to export the theme from Windows 7 and import it to Windows 8, but some colors are still different. In particular, the Active Window title bar color is too similar to the Inactive color.
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Copy *only* theme colors from one powerpoint presentation to another
I want to copy over the theme colors from one Powerpoint presentation to another.
The universal method seems to be to use the Format painter across both presentations, like explained e.g. on this ...
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Aero Effect disables automatically
Some months ago I have my windows 7 aero effect enabled, and there is no problem. But now I have problems when using aero effect (I mean aero theme).
First when using aero theme, minimizing windows ...
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Windows 7: How to make active window much visible at taskbar?
Win 7 is fancy but XP was much better at accessibility... I can't recognize easily which window is active at taskbar, active item has an extra "glow". Is there any way to improve that?
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Where can I change the color of the Title Bar in Ubuntu Linux 12 via CSS files?
Where can I change the color of the Title Bar in Ubuntu Linux 12 via CSS files?
I edited my Ubuntu from
/usr/share/themes/Classic-Ambience-Green/GTK-3.0/settings.ini
and
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Asus laptop not retaining Aero theme when unplugged
The problem i'm having occurs when i unplug my laptop, it disregards several elements of my theme.
The taskbar gains "auto-hide".
My desktop background is turned white.
The transparency on my ...
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How to set a theme for Windows XP to use before a use logs in?
If Windows XP "welcome screen" is disabled (manually or by joining a domain) an ordinary window is used to log-in (like it was in Windows 2000). This window is styled with default Windows XP "Luna" ...
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Mac OS X Themes Manager
does anyone know what a good client for changing/managing themes in Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard? I was looking at a few, but it seems that ShapeShifter doesn't work with Leopard's new themeing ...
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Themes for Chatzilla
I'm running chatzilla and I connect to a lot of servers and even more channels. I've reached the point where the tabs don't fit the width of my second screen anymore.
So, I'm looking for a theme that ...
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Mac OS X X11 gnome clients theme
Is there any program to set the theme of x11 gnome applications under Mac OS X?
I've installed macports and gnome, but I cant find the gnome-theme-manager that I'm using when under linux.
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iMovie 11: Changing the text of ending title automatically added by theme
I started a project in iMovie '11 and added some clips to it. I had chosen the 'Scrapbook' theme for the project. This theme inserted a "Directed by" title to the last 8s of the project. So far so ...
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I cannot change theme in Chrome Version 27.0.1453.110
A few days ago I got this popup saying the my Chrome was out of date and demanded I upgrade. I did and got Version 27.0.1453.110.
All my extensions disappeared as did any settings (like where to ...
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How to disable hot tracking UI feature in Windows 8?
When I click on a row it highlights the line with blue background (regular behaviour), but when I mouseover other rows it highlights them too.
How can I disable this?
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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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Can't remove border around pictures in Transcript WordPress theme
I am building a new website using the premium theme named Transcript by Gabfire and I cannot find a way to remove the border around pictures I insert into a post/article.
Have Googled this issue and ...
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Saving themes/personas to disk for Firefox and/or Chrome-browser?
Are there any tools/plug-ins that will allow me to save themes/personas locally to disk - preferably without installing them? Alternatively, is there a good way to "copy" the currently installed ...
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Peppermint Theme missing in LMDE since update
I have a problem on a system with Linux Mint Debian Edition. It was freshly installed a few days ago an "Peppermint" was chosen as theme for MATE. Today I updated the system and the theme isn't ...
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How can I extract a Google Chrome Cached Theme.pak file?
I'd like to tweak a theme for my own use, but the resources are in a Cached Theme.pak file. I'm on MacOS, and none of my unzip tools know what to do with it, even if I rename it. If I need to do ...
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Can't see theme thumbnails in Windows 7 Personalization settings
I can't see themes thumbnails in Windows 7 Personalization settings.
How can I fix this please?
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How to disable hot tracking UI feature in Windows 7?
Is it possible to disable hot tracking in tree- and listview controls in Windows 7? I guess this is related to the Aero theme, but I don't want to switch to Classic. I would like to have Aero without ...
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Create a theme from existing PPTX slide
I created a custom PPTX with two slides. The first is a greeting slide, the second is a general content slide. Both contain embedded images, colored panes, ect.
When I click on New Slide from the ...
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Windows XP failing to set theme correctly on auto-login
On several testing machines we have, when automatic login (as Administrator) is activated, Windows fails to set theme (Display properties -> Themes) correctly. Particularly, even if theme is set to ...
