Questions tagged [colors]
Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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Color batch error output in different color
Is it possible to run a command, for example xcopy and have it's standard output and error output in different colors?
I'd prefer using just what comes with Windows 10 without extra downloads. cmd or ...
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Powershell syntax highlighting overwrites foreground colour
I'm trying to set the colours of my powershell window. In particular, I often have a few different windows open for different purposes, and I want to use the font colour to easily differentiate ...
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Windows 10 Top bar Color change / registry value?
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So going through the Personalize option work for focused window
But I would like to change the color when windows aren't focused.
Any idea of the Registry value to tinker with RegEdit ?
Or other ...
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ffmpeg: How is the video with color rec.709 change to rec.2100?
I have a video in rec.709 (that is the usual SD video 1080p) Image - Original color video. In After Effect I can choose workspace rec.2100 PQ the video image will become dim (Image - Video with color ...
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Some shortcuts in Windows start menu have wrong (always dark) background
In my Windows start menu, I have several Chrome shortcuts (Gmail, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, To Do). They all have the same background, except To Do. How can I make To Do also have a light background?
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Using Thunderbird 78.9.1, what must I do to display “Important” message in red backcolor?
In Thunderbird 78.9.1, I search to display some tagged messages with some specific backcolors.
Using Options in Thunderbird application, it is only possible to set forecolors !
I have found some pages ...
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Is it possible to color-code an email entry in Outlook?
I would like to add conditional color codes to my emails in Outlook.
What I know: how to use the View entry to change the font of the entry (size, color, family)
What I do not know: how to color the ...
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Batch File - Is there a way to insert something like a page break to have different colored text?
I'm writing a batch file and wanted to know if there is a way to separate colors with different lines of text to highlight something. The batch file would have to be able to run on different PC's so ...
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Am I looking to dead pixels/screen defect
Couple of days ago, I've experienced a strange pixels pattern on my laptop's screen. The laptop is new I purchased it on December last year. I never played a game on it and its temperature never ...
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Lynx for Windows with OpenSSL and New Color style
I download lynx from invisible-island
But the only version that supports OpenSSL (which works great) is the old color styled one
which I am not used to and is wierd, as I am more used to the new 2006 ...
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How to change background color of mp4 video with ffmpeg
I have a black and white video (animated text is black on a white background), but the white is not white, it is some off-white. I only have access to the .mp4. How do I change this off-white color to ...
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Washed out colors in Windows 10
The colors of my digital graphics outputs (DVI and HDMI) are washed out (desaturated) only on one of my displays, but using my analog (VGA) output always results in correct colors.
I've excluded these ...
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How to have android-like force dark mode on windows 10
So on android, a force dark mode turns white background of ALL apps to the black and make text light even for the apps which do not have dark mode settings or the ones which do not follow system ...
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To to make “Match Source - High Bitrate” adobe encoder settings with ffmpeg?
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Hello! I'm new ffmpeg user and I'm trying to convert uncompressed avi from After Effects to mp4 file. The problem is that colors are bad compared to Adobe Media Encoder "Match Source -...
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Can we pass through 255?
I have a thought of making a color that bypasses the numerical color value of 255.
Now, if you didn't know, computer colors are created via hex codes, which its max is FF, the hex code of 255. How ...
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Windows 10 fonts look white shaded on Full HD TV
I am just going to put two pictures here and I hope one of you guys tells me how to get rid of the white area behind the letters? I have tried contrast, brightness, etc. nothing worked so far.
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Create new color scheme for Meld
I want to change the hard-to-read color scheme I see for meld (under Ubuntu 20.10.)
(I am using meld to highlight similarities between text, rather than differences. It turns out for mostly-different ...
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Why is black (0, 0, 0) the default color of transparency?
I like to make my masks and I always notice something funny. Whenever I paste a transparent image on MS Paint (not sure what version), the transparent colors are always the default black (0, 0, 0).
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Force Dark mode for Apps in Windows 10
I was using High Contrast Black till today, but something messed up and I started seeing ugly colored text in chrome, I did a clean chrome install but no success, then I tried using Dark mode from the ...
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FFMPEG encoded H.264 video of concatted images has color discrepancy
I am concatting a number of solid colored .tga files via ffmpeg below. (The overlayvideo.txt part).
I am finding a very slight color difference in the final video vs the original images.
The original ...
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Set Windows Background Colours from a Webpage Script
The Display Screen Optimiser
I have a web app which identifies the optimal background colours for reading speed. It can set this optimal colour as the background for our site but our users want to be ...
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Color changes in Photoshop
I have already managed to export my PSD file in previous color code, but now I have to change the other new icon in different color.
I have finished my works but when I reopen my previous PSD file the ...
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Some of the words are crossed-out in Adobe Acrobat Reader Pro if using an Accesibility setting that replaces Documents colors
As seen below:
Those are the settings:
The only way I have found to fix this problem is to zoom out/in
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geom_point plot continuous values by color or fill, while plotting another measure on the y axis
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df <- data.frame(subject = sort(rep(c(1:85), 8)),
number = rep(c(rep(c("singular"),4),rep(c("plural"),4)),85),
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Universal way to read linux theme colors
I'm about to develop an application which does not use native elements. Regardless, I want to adjust a couple of colors to the ones of the currently applied color scheme / theme. So my question is, if ...
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Windows 10 color issue after update
Today I updated windows 10 and since the windows started again , colors are all darker . I disabled some options in Task Scheduler and it worked for a an hour but again , everything is going dark . ...
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Why tmux does not respect terminal color settings?
I'm using alacritty terminal emulator and ZSH shell. When I customize my alacritty config so it contains light background and specific color scheme, it works allright. But as soon as I create tmux ...
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PowerShell error color
I have put these lines into my Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1. (I am using windows 10.)
$host.PrivateData.ErrorBackgroundColor = "DarkCyan"
$host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = "...
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Changing home directory on WSL gets rid of all color schemes in cmder
I'm quite used to competitive programming on linux so I was trying to set up bash in WSL. To run the executable I found out I need to type out the whole path like /mnt/e/... So I thought by changing ...
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How to update PuTTy color scheme using reg-files
I am trying to update my PuTTY UI color scheme using .reg files, but I'm not understanding how to load the .reg file and run it to save the preferences.
I want to use the following reg file, but where ...
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Change Excel Chart Colour by Font Colour
I have a dataset with a bunch of colours represented in hexadecimal triplet form, and I noticed that by putting it in excel, it gets detected as a colour, and changes accordingly, excellent, love that,...
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How do you change the text highlighter color with keyboard shortcuts?
I have my preference setting on the default yellow highlighter but I want to know how you can change the highlighter color, while typing, using keyboard commands. I know that to highlight, the command ...
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Is there a way to Create a Custom Shortcut in Okular for Changing Highlighted Text Color
I am using Okular in Ubuntu 18.04, and there I want to change the color of the highlighted text to some other color through some custom shortcut.
For example, let's say I have higlighted the text in ...
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How to preserve terminal colors on remote server?
I define my terminal colors in ~/.Xresources. E.g. for my dark blue I have a line *color4: #7cafc2. This works on my local terminal.
When I ssh to a remote server, some of the terminal programs use ...
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Rgb not working on MSI motherboard
Today I booted up my computer and none of the RGB is not working including the strip that is on the motherboard I do not recall doing anything that would cause this problem. The RGB strip out on the ...
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Permanently change Powershell syntax highlight colors lowered execution policy
I changed the colors of Powershell but now the syntax highlights are hard to see so I figured out how to change them but they do not stay permanently. I tried putting the following command in the $...
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HDR color scheme in Windows 10 desktop
I bought an HDR10 supporting IPS monitor (LG 27GL83A-B) recently. So, I basically just connected it to my PC, then went to Windows 10 display settings and turned the HDR option on. It made a lot of ...
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How to change the background color of the console window a .lnk opens programmatically?
The title says it all. How to change the background color of the console window a .lnk opens programmatically?
For example, using my script from my previous answer: pintotaskbar.ps1:
This creates a ...
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Customizing posh-git prompt colors
I'm trying to customize the colors for the git info added to the prompt by posh-git, but it's not working. I have the following line in my profile:
$GitPromptSettings.DefaultForeGroundColor = 'Yellow'
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Why does this PNG display differently in Firefox vs Chrome?
Here is the image:
This image has no gAMA chunk or color profiles. I tried to remove the sRGB chunk, but have not been able to, with pngcrush or pngfix.
Despite this, this image displays differently ...
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Is keeping night light on my windows 10 laptop bad for the computer?
The question is basically it but here's the background of the story if curious:
My eyes woulld ache since I spend 12+ hours a day looking at a computer screen, so I decided to give night light a try ...
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macOS: How to programmatically apply color filters on the screen?
I can apply color filters using macOS settings. I want to do this programmatically. I'm okay with using private APIs (this is for personal use).
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Why is htop not displaying colors only for my local machine?
TL;DR: htop 3.0.4 on macOS 11.0.1 doesn't display colors when running for my local machine, but if ssh'd into a remote system, running htop from there shows colors with no issues.
I'm running into a ...
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Preserve (or obviate the need for) color space information when using ffmpeg?
I am experiencing the same issues as seen in ffmpeg video compression: Desaturating colors / losing color information. I have an input video, and if I do anything to it with ffmpeg (downscale, ...
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Issue with colors in Windows 10 using full dynamic range
After changing the dynamic range in Nvidia Control Panel to full I can't see the difference in colors. Previously I could see the difference as soon as I change that setting, but now nothing changes.
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How to change colour of reoccurring appt in Microsoft Outlook 2016 without changing all other appts
I have been asked to colour code appts in Microsoft Outlook in blue and then change these to green when attended or red if they different show up for the appt. To save time the appts have been set up ...
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How to change colors in Montech Tower fans?
I built a gaming PC with tower from Montech
How can I change colors for the tower fans? I can only get red and green lights? I know these are static colors but how can I get it to be rainbow colors?
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How to enhance an image based pdf for better reading experience using linux
I have few notes of our course, but the problem is that they are taken via phone camera and made into pdfs. As such there are no such enhancements on the images applied and at times it is not ...
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How to change the available color palettes in MS Excel's “Chart Styles”
When you make a chart in Excel 2011 and greater, there are a few options for setting the default color palette. Is there a way to add new color palette options or modify one of the existing palettes? ...
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How can only the Niqqud/vowels be painted in Hebrew and Syrian texts?
Hello everyone,
For study and research purposes, I am interested in marking in a separate color the punctuation/vowel/niqqud/vocalization marks that are above and below the letters, both in Syriac ...
