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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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Oh My Posh not working for root user [closed]

Whenever I launch the terminal, my theme runs smoothly. However, as soon as I switch to the root user, the settings revert to their default state. I added the eval command to my .bashrc file, but I'm ...
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Customize Taskbar Icon based on light vs dark theme

I manage a fleet of around 250 workstations. We have a custom app for many of our users that we pin to the taskbar by default. The icon is designed to mimic the style of some of the built-in Windows ...
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How To Fix Windows Calculator Numbers Display?

When I open windows calculator it appears like this: If I changed to the dark theme everything seems OK. I have not changed Windows themes or display settings. I tried: 1- Resetting the Calc app. 2- ...
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VLC dark mode on Windows 11 desktop?

According to this site, VLC on GNU is centrally themed via Qt, but for Windows I've only found "use the eDark skin", which only works when opening that vlt file with VLC and lacks my custom ...
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Windows 10 forces dark mode on Libre Office [duplicate]

Starting from the latest version of LibreOffice (7.5.2.2) I'm having a problem, which is that the interface appears as follows: I thought that LibreOffice now came pre-installed with the dark theme, ...
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Resetting window control buttons to the original in Windows 7

I'm using a Windows 7 laptop for the time being until I can repair my Windows 11 machine. Now I have one question I had once back in 2012. My window control buttons look like this: I want them to ...
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GTK Theme Not Being Respected

I am currently running DWM and would like to have all my applications be dark themed. Since DWM doesn't have any control panel or anything like that I tried changing the config file on $HOME/.config/...
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How to hide the windows OS.default dark theme setting from chrome so that I can force sites to think `prefers-color-scheme` is `light`?

I want a dark theme for everything except READING DOCUMENTATION, so I have no choice but to set my OS default to dark. In most editors for documents and reading, the background is often still white, ...
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How do I set (firefox) gtk theme at runtime under wayland?

With firefox under wayland (Hyprland), if I set gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme={0,1} in ~/.config/gtk3.0/settings.ini and then launch firefox it correctly determines the system theme. How do I set ...
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Windows 11 using Task Scheduler to change the Windows light/dark theme EXACTLY like how Settings would do it

Since Windows 11 doesn't have the light/dark theme depending on time of day, I decided to implement one through Task Scheduler. Basically at certain times, I'd change the binary values of Computer\...
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Is it possible to apply a custom theme to a collection of Visio files?

I have a collection of hundreds of Visio diagrams and I want to change the colors scheme and style. I have been trying to use the Themes and Variants but up to now they don't seem to function in the ...
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How to specify custom a sound scheme within a Windows theme file?

In Windows, one can create custom themes, defined by .theme files. Each theme also contains a sound scheme for audio cues, as specified in the Sounds section of the .theme file: [Sounds] ; ...
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Windows does not respect theme switch done by registry

I am using Windows 11 22H2 build 22621.1265. I use these scripts to change the system/application theme accordingly: New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\...
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How to change mouse cursor using powershell script on windows 11 without restarting?

I am having some hard time trying to change mouse cursor using PowerShell script on windows 11. I have this application called WDD scripts which have the power of PowerShell scripts depending on the ...
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Windows 11 taskbar shows only in black color without using any dark theme or softwares...how to resolve this?

My Win 11 taskbar only shows a completely black color. I have used many software to change it but to no avail. Also I did all the recommended settings to fix it but got no result. How can I resolve ...
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How to make Thunderbird display in dark mode when enable Dark Theme doesn't work?

This is the most relevant question: How can I view Thunderbird in full Dark Mode? It doesn't address my problem. I enable dark mode, and it doesn't do anything, I've also tried plugins. How do I go ...
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How to get clear borders for windows in RDC

How to get clear borders for windows in RDC? I am using Windows 11 I am RDCing to my server but the windows have no borders which make it harder to tell which window is when i open multiple windows. ...
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How to remove overlaid background during the "loading initial ramdisk" screen?

I am on Debian, and have set a custom grub theme, with custom background and stuff. It works, but when Linux boots, during the "loading initial ramdisk" screen, it overlays the default ...
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Dark Mode inconsistencies in Windows 10 / 11 UI

Dark Mode settings in Windows 10 (and Windows 11) are only partially implemented and inconsistent, which is odd, and sometimes jarring (when you are in File Explorer and then open up a Properties ...
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How to enable light mode/dark mode in Windows 11 programatically?

I'm trying to schedule the light mode/dark mode in Windows personalization settings using Task scheduler, so that Windows theme colors will change based on time of day, which is also better for eyes. ...
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Windows has inserted a halloween picture in the start menu. How do I turn it off [duplicate]

Without me requesting it, Windows is showing Halloween-themed picture in my search box on the start menu. How do I kill this nonsense? Asking now, because if it starts showing me Thanksgiving or ...
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PowerShell / Registry, change to Best Performance, and activate the change

The following is listed on various sites to switch to Best Performance mode (under This Computer Properties > Advanced system settings > Performance). On running this nothing happens. I can see ...
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How to disable Program Compatibility Assistent for using 3rd party themes?

I want to install this Aero theme on Windows 10 version 21H2, build 19044.1288. When I run UxStyle installer, based on this guide: How to install and apply third party themes in Windows 10, I get: (...
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Dark mode on Linux container for Chrome Os Flex

I'm using Chrome OS Flex, using the development tool, which installs Linux in a container, which is very intuitive. The problem is how to change the theme of applications to the system dark mode of ...
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Flip taskbar order in Windows 10 / 11 in vertical mode (switch start button with clock)

Obviously Microsoft with a passion doesn't let us fully customize the taskbar. Since I have a ultrawide monitor, I need my taskbar on the side of the screen. But now my start button is at the top. Is ...
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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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What part of linux is responsible for loading themes?

Well, some time ago, i started building an LFS, and (for some reason) i started to think about some BLFS stuff, like "what icon theme will it use?" and "if possible, can I make my own ...
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Google Chrome (100.0.4896.60) custom themes not working in incognito mode

Starting today, custom themes in incognito mode stopped working. Basically, problem is exactly the same as in my old question, but solution accepted there is not working anymore. Since I can't open ...
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Attach Excel cell styles to theme file

If I create a new workbook not from a template and then go Page Layout > Themes > select the custom theme I want, it updates the colours and font but does not update the 'Styles' gallery on the ...
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Edit Windows 11 theme's background/text colours other than "Contrast themes"?

I think the dark theme of Windows 11 lacks contrast for me. For example, the background of is not dark enough, and the text colour is not white enough. But theme customisation does not seem to allow ...
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Firefox mangles theme after update

Whenever Firefox restarts, it ends up looking like this: I then go to the theme settings and Disable the Dark theme: This gives me the look I want: Strangely, after this, I can Enable and Disable ...
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Is there an easy way to fix the black background in latest Firefox update?

I am using Firefox 95.0.2 on my Win 10 PC without any issues; I also use a Win 7 PC with latest Firefox 96.0.2 and am not happy with the forced black theme issue. It is a given that eye safety is a ...
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Is it possible to set separate fish color configurations for light and dark system theme?

I use a terminal (Iterm2 Beta) that allows you to set a separate theme for light and dark mode. This is useful for changing the background color of the terminal, and the contrast of the various preset ...
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Google Chrome custom theme not working in incognito mode

How to set some other theme in incognito mode? Currently bar is so dark, I can't clearly see anything. This is what I used to use: In experimental (chrome://flags/) I enabled "Allow widgets to ...
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Antigen failing to load theme from .zshrc

I have a fresh Debin Bullseye installation and I can't get antigen to load a theme if loading it directly in .zshrc. I installed zsh and zsh-antigen using apt. My minimal .zshrc: source /usr/share/zsh-...
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Applying theme on GNU GRUB 2.06 for windows

Hello everyone is there anyway to make gnu grub themes working in windows? I setup the Gnu grub 2.06 for windows (not grub2win) but I'm confused how to setup a theme which was easy in linux by adding ...
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Microsoft Word on Mac OS: Customise theme fonts and colours

The "customise theme colours" and "customise fonts" dialogue boxes are not available in Word for Mac OS (this is present in the Windows versions since Office 2010 as far as I ...
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All programs start by themselves at the same time

Whenever I switch Windows themes which I have installed from https://www.deviantart.com/, a bunch of programs in the start menu would open up together at the same time by themselves. Yes, all of the ...
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QT5 theme not applied on my own applications

I set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct at login. Installed applications such as designer and qt5ct itself respect that, and use the theme. However, the applications I make or build myself (e.g. python ...
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How to stop Chrome from telling websites to render in dark mode?

I'm trying to get a new Windows 10 laptop setup. I've installed Chrome, of course, and I'm finding that in it most webpages render in dark mode. For example, superuser.com is rendering in dark mode. ...
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Can't turn on Dark Theme in Google search when signed in

When I sign out of my account in Google chrome and then do any search, I get an option in settings to change the appearance of the search window as shown in image below: Signed out: But when I sign ...
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How to make iPython follow the terminal's theme?

Using Windows Terminal, I have set a theme for both PowerShell and Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL, but why is that iPython follows the theme for the former, but falls back to a sort of "Breeze" in ...
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Install gtk-common-themes on Raspberry Pi Offline

I am trying to install "gtk-common-themes" for Snap offline on a Raspberry Pi 2B. It is imperative the device stays offline. On another Raspberry Pi 3 (online) machine, running the same OS (...
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Force Firefox Title Bar to use Windows operating system theme colors

The latest Firefox version 89 update has lost respect for my theme choices on Windows 10 (20H2). Now title bars are all one color and I can no longer easily tell the difference between the active ...
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apt-get upgrade fails becuse of unmet dependencies

I've been kali linux for a while, but recently ive been unable to upgrade or install new software when i run apt-get update , the list is updated successfully, but on running apt-get upgrade i get the ...
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How can I get notepad++ highlighting working for powershell using the Twilight theme?

So I got started by manually importing the powershell lexertype from stylers.xml to twilight.xml. I knew to do that much. However after going through and matching the coloring as close as i could to ...
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How to change Windows drive left storage bar

I wanted to ask how I could change the bar over disks that shows how much storage is in use. I wanted to know how could I change Properties Theme from a light version to a dark mode style? I hope you ...
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In Google Chrome Browser, how can I set the theme for one system to be different from another system?

I have the following situation for my development using two hosts, a local and remote host. I'm working in an AWS Desktop (linux), this is the local system. I ssh into an EC2 instance to do my ...
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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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How can I configure the Dark Reader Google Chrome extension so that the Filter+ mode is only activated for PDFs?

How can I configure the Dark Reader Google Chrome extension so that the Filter+ mode is only activated for PDFs? For the other webpages I want to keep the dynamic mode.
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