Questions tagged [colors]
Questions about changing the colors of things (usually themes).
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Color another cell based on (if blank) by two different cells
I had this working at one point
Column A: Names
Column B: Date
Column C: Date
IF Column B cell is filled, Color Fill ColumnA-Cell GREEN
IF Column C is filled, Color Fill ColumnA-Cell is RED
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colour part of the output from a formula
One cell has a formula:
=CONCAT("a","b")
in which "a" is a character string but "b" is in reality a value from another function.
I was asked to colour "b&...
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I can't get my monitor to display pure black
I was concerned that my new monitor seemed to have rather extreme backlight bleed - things that were supposed to be black were showing up as charcoal gray. So I decided to do some tests, and I found ...
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How do I copy color formatting with Microsoft Word?
In short, the title.
I'm trying to copy-paste parts of a word document to another location, and the receiving location doesn't get the colors pasted in. When I copy and paste to notepad and notepad++ ...
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How to copy the "tree" command output from Linux Terminal without losing the red/blue/white colours of the folder/file tree?
When copying the output of the "tree" command from the Terminal, the colours that were shown in the terminal get lost, whether I put it here or in a Google Drive Doc.
Example:
tree /var/log/...
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Far Manager with FarColorer plugin How to change change editor background color?
I use Far Manager 3.0 under Windows 10 x64, with Far Colorer plugin to highlight syntax ( in particular, in LaTex). Suddenly the Editor background change color from the usual blue to white; I think ...
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Potplayer screenshot color different from real
I use shortcut ctrl+c to take screenshot in potplayer :
This is not the color I saw on my monitor !
I use another screenshot software take :
This is what I saw on monitor.
How can I make potplayer ...
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Geany text editor doesn't highlight codes anymore
Yesterday I wrote a simple python program using Geany and it worked just right, today when I went to write another program, I received error 9009 and the editor didn't highlight any words, they were ...
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`less -R` vs `less -r`: Why do colors only work partially in `-R` mode?
I've been confused by the following behavior of less many times:
# setup some test data
echo -e "foo\nfoo\nfoo" > /tmp/foo
echo -e "bar\nbar\nbar" > /tmp/bar
# now pipe ...
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Irfanview How can I change the green font used to view .txt files?
Irfanview How can I change the green font used to view .txt files?
Using v4.6 on Win10 Pro.
When browsing or if I select a specific .txt file it display the text in an illegible green colour font. Is ...
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Does tput automatically check color abilities when loading color codes?
When using tput setaf and tput sgr0, does it automatically output nothing if the session isn't tty-like or no color support is detected?
So am I fine doing this?
declare -r styleRed=$(tput setaf 1)
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In Excel, how to apply graded color scale (with conditional formatting) only if cell value is greater than 5?
Suppose I have this dataset (the variable is not important in this case)
I would like to add a color scale for % Missing column, with light red being the lowest value and dark red being the highest ...
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How to automaticaly change the color of all "Yes" text to green using Microsoft Word?
I want to dynamicaly/automaticaly change the color of "Yes" and "No" text to coresponding colors. Yes - green. No - Red. All of this needs to be done in microsoft word.
From:
Yes (...
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Is there any way to find out if a display color depth is native 8 bit or 6 + 2 FRC?
Consider a monitor whose specifications say "Color depth: 8 bit" on any website where you buy it from.
But the thing is, it can be 6 + 2 FRC OR native 8 bit. I recently learned this thing. ...
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Excel: How to have a cell change color when it has the same value as another cell?
I have used conditional formatting to change a row's color for specific values of another cell before but now I want it to change color when the value of a cell is equal to the one next which all have ...
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How to change background color/image in Ctrl+Alt+Delete menu?
Is there any way to change a background color/image in Ctrl+Alt+Delete menu?
After logon I press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and see a menu with "Switch User", "Change a password", etc. ...
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ssh'd-to terminal background becomes white only from WSL2
I read email with mutt on an Ubuntu 18 host, which I ssh into.
When I ssh from macOS 11 (via iTerm2, if that matters) or from another Ubuntu 18 host, all is well.
But when I ssh from WSL2 (running ...
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How to move color boxs in vs code editor to old place as android studio?
The color boxs was at edge the file as anyother editor but now its moved between my code.
How can I removed to old place?
for more declare see the picture please, thank you.
Screen of my editor:
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Why in 'Windows Terminal' in some color schemes black color matches the background color?
I use the "Windows Terminal" in the "Windows 10" system. Recently I noticed that in some command line applications, parts of messages disappear.
It turned out that the authors of ...
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Video appears green-ish when adjusting gamma & saturation with ffmpeg (eq) but NOT with mpv
I'm using mpv as a video player and ffmpeg as a video encoder.
I have an original video which I am re-encoding with ffmpeg's eq filter to increase gamma & saturation. Before I do this, I use mpv ...
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Why monitor color is incorrectly rendered?
My 10 year old monitor (Dell s2240L) recently started rendering some colors incorrectly. They are instead rendered in black color. Are these dead pixels? What could be the reason behind this problem ?...
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How can I make the windows 10 taskbar window icon highlight the entire tile instead of just a thin strip?
By default, when a window is open, you can only see a thin 2 pixel bar on the side of the icon as you can see with firefox.
I want it to show a background color at all times like with the itunes icon (...
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How can a color blindness simulation in FFmpeg be done?
How a can color blindness simulation in FFmpeg be done?
I am asking this question because I want to make a YouTube video with simulated color blindness.
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How can I find out the cell background color in Excel?
How can I find out the cell background color in Excel?
Here is what I am trying to do:
1 Select the cell.
2 Click on the bucket.
3 Click on the More Colors...
4 Hoping to see the cell background ...
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Yellowness and Dim display on the Same Model Number of Lenovo
I recently purchased a Lenovo(IdeaPad 5 Pro 16ACH6) laptop and I have doubts that the laptop screen displays yellowness and dim hence I compared the same model number laptop then found a different ...
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How does one invert colors on Ubuntu Mate Desktop
Replicating Windows 10 magnifier color inverter feature on Ubuntu Mate has been a series of dashed hopes for me.
Here are the things I've tried:
xrandr-invert-colors
gnome-shell-extension-invert-color
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Printer cannot print in colour when I print from my computer. Reinstalling printer doesn’t fix things
I have a presentation that looks like this, and I want to print it.
I head to print it, but even after selecting print in colour, it still comes out like this.
I select properties, then advanced, ...
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Same color text in nano editor when logged in to the server with cmder / conemu
I saw some people have a friendly color scheme in Nano editor, e.g. words inside brackets highlighted, comments highlights etc.
Looks like I fail to get my Nano editor become more user friendly in ...
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Ubuntu/WSL disappeared from Windows Terminal?
I am using WSL/Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Terminal, and I wanted to change my font color. When I copied settings into my settings.json file, the Ubuntu profile disappeared from Windows Terminal`.
My ...
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Make active window more obvious on taskbar (Windows 10)
In Windows 10, the active window is represented on the taskbar by a very subtle shade affect (see pic). Is there a setting or registry hack that would make it more obvious?
(I keep trying to switch to ...
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Changing PowerShell 7.2.2 color scheme to the default PowerShell 5.1
As you can see the image below on the left shows what my PowerShell 7.2.2 looks like and the image on its right shows what my PowerShell 5.1 looks like.
I want to brighten the colors of my PowerShell ...
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What htop process colors mean
In htop some processes are displayed in red and others in blue. What is the meaning of these colors?
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How to change font color in Mobaxterm version-22
Today i have upgraded my MobaXterm_Portable_v11.1 framework to MobaXterm_Portable_v22.0 in my windows-10 system.
In latest version terminal font colors are not as my older version. (The colors are too ...
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How to add color to specific text in excel output file using powershell
I have written a script to check the nslookup for each server and export the details to Excel
Please help me on How to add color to specific text in the Excel output
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$result = foreach($Server in $...
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Treat file as a different file type for syntax linting color purposes in Vim
I know there's a command to treat your current file as a different file type for linting / color purposes.
Something like
:set SomethingICantRemember='python'
And it will change the colors of the ...
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How to put colors in terminal?
I would like to use rgb(a) hex codes to display colors on the terminal.
I intend to make some kind of program that can render colors inside brackets, like: [#FFFFFF]this is white text
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Windows 11 command prompt printing characters instead of coloured text
When I run my Python program from the Visual Studio Code integrated terminal everything goes fine, and I have my colors as they are supposed to be, like in this screenshot:
But if I run exactly the ...
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Change Window Frame Color For Regedit, GVim, and other windows
I have been able to change many of the Window Frame colors to black using the following key:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors
and setting:
WindowFrame 1 0 0
However, this does not ...
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What is wrong with my display?
My laptop display looks like this:
solid color image
As you can see, there are horizontal patches of distorted colours. I have a hunch that it is a software issue, but I am unsure. I have been using ...
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How to alter "grep" colour scheme on Windows-10 Ubuntu WSL app
I'd like to alter the colour scheme of my grep results on my Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, Ubuntu app on a Windows-10 computer).
My .bashrc file contains the following entry:
alias grep='grep --...
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Windows 10 Movies & TV app overrides screen contrast settings in fullscreen
I have just got myself a new Nvidia GPU and faced a problem with Windows Movies & TV app.
Whenever the app is in fullscreen mode and I either close its window or go to windowed mode, my display's ...
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Why does the same eight-character hexadecimal code show a different color in different software?
I want to pick up the color #FFEAF0FF from the Visual Studio color scheme to Visual Studio Code:
But when I put this hexadecimal code into Visual Studio Code, it becomes a different color:
They are ...
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In MS-Word, Can I write text in different color from that of the style of the paragraph?
I want to write a MS word document which analyzes an assembly code.
For that, firt I copied the assembly code in MS-word in default black color. Now I want to add my comments in the code with ...
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How to change the font color in the title of iTerm 2?
Does anyone know what option should I put in .zshrc to change the font color in the title of iTerm from grey to white? I spent 24h and still couldn't find the right option because there are a lot of ...
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How to use ffmpeg to selectively replace a specific color with another color in videos?
Some of my videos have a very eye-hurting white color in them, like the white color in clouds. I looked for ways, using ffmpeg, to filter out and then change only the white color to something a little ...
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What's the difference between 24-bit and 32-bit color on displays?
Newer OSs don't show this, but I remember getting confused about this in Windows XP, where you had the opion for 24-bit and 32-bit color. 32-bit color generally includes an alpha channel, but we haven'...
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Unseen discoloration on screen while seen when printed
Once more I return with a wierd case of what is going on. Here is what's going on.
So a user called me about a discoloration of printed stickers and labels. Didn't seem very odd and I thought it was ...
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Windows 10 with lower color depth?
Currently, if I open Advanced Display Settings and List All Modes, all supported modes have "True Color (32 bit)".
I Googled and did not find a solution. Given that lower color depths have ...
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How do I find and replace a font colour in word?
I'm trying to replace one colour with another across a word document.
I've found a few posts from 2008 and this post from 2019 both with the same instructions across multiple different versions of ...
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Why do all colors go down at the same speed with laser printer?
I have this suspicious output from my printer (HP M252d)
I remember printing one large document that had many pages with a layout full of green. I understand that this is not a spot color and that ...