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NEW TO LINUX Desktop doesn't look right
I burned Ubuntu 13.04 to a DVD and booted it on an Intel Pentium III desktop. On live disc boot, the log in screen looked fine and, once logged in, the bar across the top and the applications dock ...
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Ubuntu Colours Pallete Licence
I am developing some Chrome app and started using Ubuntu colours for it. The ones I found in the Ubuntu Colour Palette. I assume it's there and public so that app developers could create a consistent ...
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Intel HD4000 driver 13.04 : can I calibrate color screen?
I've got a new laptop with an ugly blue tint (very painful for my eyes). I can calibrate the screen on windows 8, this is not perfect, but berable. I hesitate to go with the next ubuntu because I have ...
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Is it possible to change text console (VT, framebuffer) foreground color?
I tried setterm -foreground green but any action resets the color back to white.
Also, switching black and white seems like a nice option for e-paper (e-ink) screens.
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How can I colorize code sent to STDOUT?
Most text editors - vim, emacs, kate, gedit - have colorizers, so that, depending on the language you're programming in, it will color the text differently.
Is there a way to do that for code sent to ...
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Using alias to change ls to ls-l changes(or disables) the colors of ls output
I've used alias to change ls to ls -l, but the colours change to the normal font of the terminal (also tried ls -l before the alias command and the colours appeared fine).
What is wrong?
Thank you
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changing the color of the google search bar in the webpage [duplicate]
How can I change the background color in the google search bar of the webpage? I changed my theme which uses a light grey text with a dark grey background but the webpage didn't change so it is a ...
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Is there a GUI application for adjusting monitor color?
I have an Asus laptop with an i5 processor, and an nVidia 610m graphics card, and an external monitor that is slightly pink. It was easy to fix this with the Windows control panel.
Seeing that Ubuntu ...
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How to change the background color of current day in the calendar?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I think the default color for the current day is not right. It lacks of contrast. For usability and accesibility purposes, it's better to highlight a little bit more the ...
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Can I change the colour of the close button?
I'm using the ambiance theme (the dark one) in Ubuntu 12.04.2. I've tweaked things using dconf-editor so that the select colour is blue (#4a90d9 if anybody cares).
What I'd like to do is make the ...
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Kubuntu context menus infiltrating Ubuntu
I recently installed Kubuntu, which I almost immediately uninstalled in favor of my trusted GNOME. However, I found out that in some context menus, like all of the window ones and those of Chrome, the ...
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How to change the Top bar's icon color
The power, wireless, sound, and battery icon are black on my Top bar. I am wondering how I can change the color of these icons to a lighter color.
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Bash Prompt Changes Colors on ls
My prompt is:
PS1="\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \[\e[33m\]':)'\[\e[0m\]; else echo \[\e[31m\]':('\[\e[0m\]; fi\` \e[0;1m\w\e[1m\n\$ "
The problem is when I use ls, the prompt changes colors to the ...
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Can I change the color of tabs in gedit?
under Xfce 4 (Xubuntu 4.8) the tabs of gedit appear black with dark grey writing (at least on my PC it does). Obviously this makes it pretty hard reading the file names that are open. Changing the ...
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How can I conditionally change the nautilus background color?
I would like to have the nautilus background color different if the current folder is being managed by git (i.e., if there is a .git directory in it). Any ideas how to do that? Ideal solution would ...
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Colorize hardlinks in ls output?
How can I colorize hardlinks myself? Turns out on an old Ubuntu 10.04 I have, this happens by default (same .bashrc and .profile in use), whereas on the newer Ubuntu 12.04 it doesn't.
This is the ...
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Nano Syntax Highlighting Colors
Where can I find a complete list of supported colors used in syntax highlighting for the GNU Nano text editor? I've looked through the man pages, and it gave the syntax for defining syntax coloring, ...
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Can Evolution always use the same font/colour when starting a new email?
When I start to write a new email, using Evolution, I must manually change the font I want to use and its colour. Is there a way to set the default text format ?
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How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?
I have a lot of Powerpoint slides that I converted to LibreOffice Impress. The resulting hyperlinks are very faded, very hard to see. I can't seem to find any way to change the colour of hyperlinks ...
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color black turns to red (flickering)
Computer screen started doing something weird: all areas that should be black are now filled with red color (flickering). I didn't drop the laptop or hit it.
Also there are 4 vertical (blue) lines ...
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Firefox ignore GTK theme for localhost stuff
I know this is pretty much a duplicate of How can one make firefox ignore my GTK theme entirely?, but the answers on that one are no permanent solution. It works by launching firefox from the ...
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Mplayer subtitle change color in config file
How change mplayer subtitle from white to yellow? Also how change subtitle font to Ubuntu-font-family ?
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How to manually set color of Unity Panel?
I was just wondering if there's a way to set the color of the Unity panel manually, as opposed to having it derived from smooshing all the colors of the wallpaper together. (the launcher on the left ...
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Need help Video card issue
how can i fix the problem with the image?
If you look at the top-left of:
Text and some images starts flickering.
I have 2 Nvidia GTX460. Drivers are "unknown" according to "About this ...
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dircolors/ls not being displayed correctly under NTFS drive
I've been messing around with the colours of the files under the .dircolor file, and it worked perfectly under the Linux folders.
But whenever I try to ls to a NTFS folder all files are displayed ...
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Change directory colour displayed in the terminal
I would like to change the colour displayed of some folders when I do ls.
Right now I have a directory with movies and I would like to be able to see the ones that I haven't seen in a different ...
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In Gnome Shell, how can you change the dark color scheme when you hit the super key?
I would like to get rid of the darkening of the desktop that occurs when you hit the super key or move the mouse cursor to the corner of the screen in Gnome Shell. I would also like to change the ...
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Negative colors in video playback [closed]
I currently have ubuntu 12.04 installed and some days (or restarts) all videos play in VLC, Chrome, MediaPlayer, and others with nagative colors. Other days (seldom) videos play fine with their normal ...
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Change Right-click menu background color
I'm using a modified Ambience theme (found in the Ambience-colors package, here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/download-ambiance-and-radiance-themes.html ) and the right-click menus of the Ambiance ...
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What color format gnome terminal color pallete use?
My question is as per title and more importantly, how to convert regular hex/rgb color format to the one that is used in gnome terminal color pallete (eg #26268B8BD2D2)?
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Ubuntu 12.04 colors same for title/menu background & active/inactive windows
I have Ubuntu 12.04, Unity 2D desktop, installed from scratch. The colors between the draggable title bar and the not-draggable menu bar are the same, as are the colors of the active and inactive ...
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Wine settings to correct color palette?
I have a Windows application (Kidspiration 3 Starter), that when running under wine 1.4 in Ubuntu 12.04 shows a completely distorted color palette that makes the interface unusable. See screenshot.
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How to calibrate Toshiba LED screen - the colours are over saturated [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to calibrate the monitor on an Ubuntu system?
I have purchased a new Toshiba Satellite C850-A812 laptop, with ATI Radeon HD 75xx series.
When i first installed ...
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Icons in Dash show up in weird colors. OpenGL Issue?
I have a somewhat weird issue with my Precise setup (32bit). Since last Friday some colors are very different from the original ones. But only in the Dash (not in Nautilus or the panel). Moreover, the ...
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No terminal colors in Ubuntu Server 12.04
I've tried everything from this duplicate question but I still can't get it to work. The only difference from that question is that when I run env | grep TERM I get TERM=xterm instead of ...
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Connecting Ubuntu 11.10 to Samsung LCD TV over HDMI , gives screen in green and lila
I have a Dell 5720 laptop with ubuntu 11.10.
I can't connect to my Samsung LCD TV (over Marantz nr 1601 AV).
Audio is ok but the pictures are displayed in two colours: green and lila !
Please ...
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Unable configure brightness or colors (12.04)
I've make a fresh install with Ubuntu 12.04. Unfortunatly i've a problem with colors and brightness settings. Before reinstall of Ubuntu, i used Ubuntu 10.10 with same graphic card, and same nvidia ...
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How to change color of the frame of a maximizing window [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the “Selected Items” color?
How do I change the theme and window border color?
Can I theme the menubar to look different if a window is maximized?
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How to change color AND width of non overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 12.04
I know many people have complained about the almost invisible and not usable scrollbars in recent versions of Ubuntu, even after removing or disabling the default overlay scrollbars. I wonder how can ...
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Highlighting with grep doesn't work in Xterm
I've got a problem with Xterm.
When I use the command
tail -F example.log | grep -a -i -e 'examplestring'
in Xterm the "grepped" strings aren't highlighted in red like they would be in the normal ...
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Eclipse colour scheme is terrible in Ubuntu
I have modified my eclipse colour theme to my liking but just cant seem to develop in peace because I keep having to squint and stare at the screen for certain elements. The colour default scheme is ...
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Video players are showing videos with inverted colors in Natty 11.04 [closed]
All video players are showing videos, local video files in many different formats (flv, webm, ogg, 3gp, mp4), in negative/inverted colors. The same videos are displayed ok by firefox with some ...
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How do I decrease brightness of my laptop beyond the amount it specifies?
Is there a way I can decrease the brightness of my laptop (Dell 1558) beyond the amount it actually allows me to?
I tried Redshift, it works okay, but I wanted to manually decrease the brightness. ...
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Quicktime movie trailers color issue
I have tried all the suggestions and can't find a way to correctly play quicktime trailers from it's web site. They have a blue tint. The green movie rating screen that appears at the beginning is ...
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How can I colour code my files like on a Mac? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we have Mac like ‘labels’ on GNOME?
Is there any way I can label my files with a specific colour in my folders? I know that this is possible on a Mac OS.
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Why are the colors worse on Ubuntu 12.04 than on Windows 7 on my Sony Vaio E-Series?
The colours look "lacking" and ever slightly blueish and rather washed-out and lacking in dimension.
Graphics are ok - this page for example looks fine - but if I view something like a news site with ...
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Why are the images noisy and low quality system wide? Why do the color profiles not activate?
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu (12.04) and I'm now trying to decide if the system is usable for serious photography work. So far I love Unity and the snappiness of the system but there are some problems ...
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Ubuntu 12.04, Unity and Gnone, table cell colors wrong in FF, Chrome
We use tables with the bgcolor attribute applied to TABLE, TR and TD tags. Under 12.04, both Unity and classic Gnome, these do not render the cell, row and table colors as specified.
The form used is ...
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How do I fix Age of Empires color problem?
I have followed the tutorial here and I got everything to work but the graphics. Below is what it looks like when I play the William Wallace campaign. I need help. I really want to play the game ...
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Why does the videos played in ubuntu 12.04 show more colour?
When I play videos in VLC or movie player they show more colour which cannot be adjusted. Screen shot below. Please help me out.
