Questions tagged [colors]
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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Mutt using elinks to color HTML and external pager dilemma
These days more and more HTML emails are being used.
Unfortunately making mutt render HTML in color via elinks works only partially due to the fact that the internal pager of mutt overwrites the color ...
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Changing text and background colors only for plain text emails in Thunderbird
I managed to tune Thunderbird to darker scheme for everything except the messages, so it looks like this:
I tried changing colors for messages in Options - Display - Colour, but regardless of Allow ...
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Is there any way to change a specific window's colors?
I'd like to find a way to manipulate window colors: invert, tint, change brightness and contrast of specific windows in Windows 7 (although I'm interested in solutions for 8 and 10 as well).
Among ...
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How to modify the color of the white transition page of firefox?
When I what to open a website. After I press enter, an all-white page is displayed for a second while I wait for the page to start loading. I understand that it's a very short time but I use dark ...
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Why do some image viewers display color differently?
On my Fedora 23 machine I've noticed that different image viewers show the colors of images differently (i.e. with different intensity).
In this example the left version of the image is a screenshot ...
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Changing File Explorer Background Color Windows 8.1
I want to change the white flourish background color of default file explorer in Windows 8.1 Pro.
Its hard to see white background color every time people with weak eye-sight or for continuous ...
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Force text/background color in drop-down menu in Firefox
I have following code in my userContent.css, which forces all textareas and input fields to be black on white:
input, textarea {
color:#000 !important;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !...
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black and white pages not recognized by printer
I have a document which has color on about 25% of its pages. When I print it in the copy shop, the printer's technically supposed to recognize the b/w pages. However, all pages are registered as ...
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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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Changing colors of emails in Outlook 2007 - based on replied to status
My manager would like to have any emails he hasn't replied to or forwarded within 24 hours of receipt to turn yellow and then red if he hasn't dealt with them within 48 hours.
I've gone through the ...
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Why do specific green colors appear darker when using a dedicated GPU? (RX580)
I recently upgraded my graphics card to a RX580 (Polaris 20 XTX) but now I have been noticing weird problems with specific colors. I first noticed it when looking at the Spotify logo but now I see ...
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FFmpeg - Cut video from the beginning until a certain pixel is colored at a specific color
I am new to working with FFmpeg and would like to automate video trimming but can't find a way to do it.
So, what I would like to achieve is this: I want to delete the beginning of a video file until ...
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RDP Colour Artifacts/Pixelation
I'm connecting with RDP from a Windows 10 laptop using an 8-bit screen to a 10-bit enabled desktop (1 screen has 10bit colour). Once connected, I'm seeing the below.
When I physically disconnect the ...
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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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Windows 10 Lock Screen turning black&white after PC turns on
Last few days I noticed that after I turn the PC on, when the Lock Screen shows up its black and white (greyscale). I don't know why its this way, or is this a new feature? I did not install a feature ...
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Why does ffmpeg's "tonemap" tone mapping filter give me different colors depending on the output format?
I have a source video that is a UHD HDR MKV file using the HEVC codec. Specifically, the input video stream as reported by ffprobe is:
hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), ...
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Color Blind Red->Orange Green->Blue
I'm Red-to-Green colorblind and working with VS Code. I would like to override all Red and Green text colors throughout the entire editor. Red would be changed to Orange, and Green would be changed to ...
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Windows 10 Cortana/Search Turned White
I recently got the April update for Windows 10 and immediately I noticed Cortana/Search on the taskbar sticking out like a sore thumb.
The seemingly only valid solution available is to turn the app ...
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Thunderbird Lightning: Customize colors and fonts of tasks list (userChrome.css)?
To better organize my tasks I would like to customize my tasks list in Thunderbird Lightning:
Color tasks according to category. Done by add-on Chromatask. Works fine.
The tasks over the due date ...
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Putty stops displaying colors when in SU
So as the title suggests my putty stops displaying colors as soon as i enter SU.
I dont know if this is how its suppose to work or if there is any work around, already tried googling but only come up ...
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24 bit color themes in vim/neovim in linux subsystem for windows
Right now colors in vim are all wrong.
As you can see I've tried wsl-terminal con-emu and settings colors in default terminal application to match solarized theme.
All terminals (except conemu) use ...
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Colors change on external monitor when I close the lid
I have an external monitor (Dell S2415H) connected to my laptop (Dell Inspiron 7559) through HDMI.
I refer to the external monitor only:
The colors show fine when the lid is open, but the picture ...
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ConEmu + ls -- 256 colors not working
I'm using ConEmu (specifically Cmder's version). Running 'cmd', it supports 256 colors (top).
However, I can't get other programs to run in 256 color mode. I've tried Perl (middle) and ls (bottom), ...
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White-Black dot on Laptop Display
I have noticed a dot on my laptop screen. The behaviour of this dot is changing under different background colors. I just want to know if this is a DEAD PIXEL of anything else and is there any fix for ...
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Eclipse - How to change background color of tooltips for hidden text/too long text
I use Eclipse Mars dark theme and have been trying to get colors right to my best effort.
When you mouseover/hover an item which has a text too long and got partially hidden by window, a tooltip ...
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URxvt: vim and cursorColor [invisible cursor or invisible cursor text]
Introduction
I've always used a light-background terminal and a dark-background editor (vim). On this I'm not willing to compromise. In any case, I've just switched from xterm to urxvt ($TERM == rxvt-...
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How to reload windows color settings after change of registry key?
I've got a little question regarding the color settings in windows 7:
Via Desktop-Right-Click -> Personalize -> Window Color -> Advances Settings
I'm able to change the color of the selected items. ...
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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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Dual monitor color calibration
I'm trying to get my monitors (two different models) to look the same. I've been fiddling with the gamma/brightness/color channels in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but I can't make them look exactly the ...
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How to change Windows 7 Aero Desktop Icon Text Color
The default icons are white on blue. Since I am older with vision issues I find a pale green or yellow with black text easiest to read and see. We were developed on a yellow-green planet!
I would ...
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Laptop power cord splicing, Red Vs Blue
Components specs
Laptop
Brand: Toshiba
Original cord
Brand: Natno (replacement AC adapter)
Model: SK90195231
Input: 100-240V--1.3A
Output: 19.5V–––2.31A
Wire Colors: black,white,brown/red
New HP Cord
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How to make it obvious if a window has focus in Windows 11?
It used to be that windows had title bars, and the window's title bar indicated very obviously whether that window had focus, using the "accent color" and also by making the title bold.
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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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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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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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Transparent windows in Windows 10 Pro over videos & color shift while browsing
I recently bought a new MSI laptop and after installing windows 10 pro I am facing some issues with the screen.
First of all, it goes to night mode (shifts color tune) when I am browsing the internet ...
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PowerShell prompt color issue
I tried this: How to colorize the Powershell prompt?
function prompt
{
$ESC = [char]27
"$ESC[46mPS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel ...
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How to preserve exact colors in Imagemagick svg to png conversion?
Let's take a simple example SVG:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/...
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Change color of ctrl + f search results in chromium
i'm looking for any way to change the yellowish stock color of ctrl + f search results in chromium based browser (opera in my case). I tried to research this topic, but i didn't find any way to do ...
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Changing the colors of zsh syntax highlighting - Robbyrussel theme
Does anyone know how to remove the directory highlighting in ZSH with the robbyrussel theme? This issue is driving me mad lately. Some directories (not all) are being randomly highlighted, and in ...
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How to add colours to GNU Screen
This might seem like an odd/silly question(and I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to ask?), but I have some server programs running on a machine and I'd like multiple terminals to monitor ...
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Windows search results background color white when in dark mode
From the desktop, when using 'Win S' to search for anything the results background is white. I'm running Windows v1903 18362.267 and have set my desktop to use Dark mode through 'Settings/Colors/...
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remote zsh doesn't print in 256 color though terminal can print
I want to print my remote Zsh print in 256 color. But as you can see, terminal itself can print all colors, Zsh theme only prints in 8 the color version.
Test codes here:
curl -s https://gist....
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Lossless convertion of a set of png images into an H.264 mp4 video with FFmpeg for future editing
I have an animation rendered as a series of png images, and I want to convert it losslessly into an H.264 mp4 video. The images are in the RGB color space.
I tried these options:
ffmpeg -framerate ...
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Customize file colors in ranger terminal file manager
I've been using ranger for a couple of days now, and I started customizing it to my needs. I have now the devicons plugin which shows a glyphs next the file name, but I don't know where I can change ...
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Colors are washed out on new monitor
I recently bought a second monitor for my laptop but the colors are all washed out and black is grey. This makes reading text on wite background difficult.
It's a PHILIPS 223V5LHSB2/00
Led
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Why does tmux require setting 256 color mode manually?
I just logged-in to a machine and realized that the colors changed inside tmux. It seems like even with TERM=xterm-256color and tput colors ⇒ 256 tmux switches to TERM=screen and tput colors ⇒ 8.
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Running Doom 1 in a Linux virtual machine with 8 bit color
I'm trying to compile and run the original Doom 1 game in a Linux based virtual machine. I've managed to get the source code compiled (from here: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM) but I can't run ...
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Windows 10 - Is it possible to change the higlight color of file explorer?
The light blue color used to highlight files is barely visible. On a bright screen it is very difficult to tell the selected file on first look.
This thread is about Windows 7 and not working for me
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