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How to redirect output with color in gedit [duplicate]

I have a simple script to print color text in terminal which I've directed to log file too. #!/bin/bash echo -e "\033[01;32mGreen color" > ~/Desktop/color.log When I run from terminal cat color....
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Is there a way to change the default colors in Ubuntu 18.04

Is there a way to change the default color from Orange? What I'm talking about is the close button on some programs, I actaully don't care for the color Orange, and I was wondering because I know ...
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Turn on color scheme in bash [duplicate]

I have a VPS with ubuntu linux on it. $ ssh [email protected] [email protected] password: Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-134-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://...
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Change default folder color in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Is there any way to change the default folder color in Ubuntu? It has always been orange, a color that I personally can't stand, and the only solution I have found is to manually change the color of ...
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Changing the color of terminal text

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I mean changing the color of text I type, not user@server. Have seen some other posts about it, but could not get it to work. Want it permanent. I already change the user@...
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Night light and Redshift don't work

I installed Ubuntu on a disk partition just two days ago and everything work like a charm. The only problem I'm having is with the screen temperature color. In Windows I use f.lux and I set the color ...
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Read picture as BGR mode instead of RGB

I've got some picture in BGR mode, but I don't find a way to display them in BGR; all application read them with RGB, so it's not really good to see as you can see below : The main color of the front ...
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Why shellharden does not output background colors in Terminator?

I have installed shellharden, a library that allows to output shell syntax issues (like missing double quotes) in a shell / bash script. Output should highlight double quote issues with a different ...
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My laptop screen has a purple tint. How to fix it?

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. My graphics card is AMD Radeon R3 Graphics. This a screenshot of my screen. Clearly the blue circle appears purple. Why is it happening and how to solve it? My system is ...
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Nouveau driver: colours and shading all wrong

How can I deal with the colour problems that the latest Nouveau driver provides? As you can see from the attachment, this causes transparency where it shouldn't, red where it should be grey and in ...
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How do I fix .bashrc not having colors on one machine with identical config as another?

I'm spinning up a bunch of identical servers but I don't have my ops deployment set up yet. Well, I already made a mistake in initializing the first server, namely, useradd steam not adduser steam. ...
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How change colors of top bar control panels?

How can I change colors of this box and box-keyboard-layout and calendar? /* ubuntu 18.04 / gnome shell 3.28 */
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Condition on the output to xterm of a variable that has been echo'ed in color

The fourth line of this code outputs the input argument in green color to an xterm. However, I'd like to be able to condition on the value of the input. If I input the word Foo then from bash's ...
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Why is the console text sometimes a different color?

I have a Ubuntu server (18.04) that rebuilds itself on a schedule. Every once in a while on a fresh install, all the console text color will be a different color. Usually it's white on black, but ...
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Why displaying colors is different between Ubuntu and windows? [duplicate]

I am a web developer and I do not know why colors are seen differently in Linux and windows. this is so important to designers. and how can I make displaying color colors like windows?
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16.04 desktop icon backgrounds

Is it possible to change the background color of the Desktop Icons? I have a light colored background image and cannot read the Names (white text) of the Icons for my document links on the Desktop. ...
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Change temperature values of Night Light

The screen of my laptop (Dell XPS 15) is rather blue. I found that I can tweak it a little bit with redshift. During the day, 6000K is the perfect temperature, in the evening I tend to use 5500K. ...
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Is it possible to apply different colors to terminal tabs in GNOME based on the opened directory?

Is it possible to apply different colors to terminal tabs in GNOME based on the opened directory? e.g. having red background for tab when it is open in: /path/one/* and the green one when tab is ...
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Color-palette/theme for Ubuntu 18.04

I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed and I like it, but I'm not a big fan of the aubergine and orange color scheme. I tried to change it by changing the theme with the gnome-tweak-tool. The Adwaita-dark ...
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Set colors for terminator to terminal's

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, I installed Terminator and noticed it has different colors than the standard terminal. The contrast is not high enough and I like the standard terminal colors. So my ...
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Change Shell default color

I wonder if there a way to change the brownie default color in Gnome shell to a more grayed one. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and applied the Arc dark theme with Gnome Tweak, but I think a more grayed color ...
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what is the original Unity panel bar color?

I want the panel color to be in the same as in Ubuntu Unity 16.04.
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Terminal in Tmux is 256 color but Vim isn't

I'm new to Ubuntu. Recently I installed tmux on my Ubuntu 16.04. The terminal screen in tmux shows 256 color correctly. However, when I opened vim in tmux, the color was different from what normally ...
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How to change file colors in Ubuntu?

I am trying to organize my computer's file management system, for this purpose. How can I change the file colors in Ubuntu to distinguish each of them easier?
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Folder color extension... doesn't change color

I have installed the folder-color package from the Ubuntu repositories as well as the PPA, run the command nautilus -q, rebooted, changed themes (I use papirus-adapta-nokto but it doesn't work in ...
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How to adjust my display contrast and colors

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I want to adjust the color gamma, and contrast of the display. I am using notebook, video card is AMD Radeon R5 M255, Ubutnu 17.10. The purpose of this is to make ...
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Customizing Ubuntu 18.04 UI - How to switch colors for certain UI items?

I have the default looks, at least brought forward from around Ubuntu 16.10. Now I have Ubuntu 18.04 and have a few little discomforts: It's hard to tell which window is active - light gray vs. less ...
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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 - ‘Night Light’ flickers occasionally

Essentially, I have Night Light enabled in the panel to change my colour temperature Occasionally (every few minutes) I get a brief flicker or two where the temperature switches back to what it was ...
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How can I launch gThumb (version > 3.4.3) with light background colors in menus and browser like before?

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and before, the gThumb application (version 3.4.3) has a light background in its menus, its browser and its dialogues – like white or light grey. So the gThumb application fits ...
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How to change system background color 16.04

I want to change the background color of the windowing system to gray. The goal is, that e.g. Background color of empty tab in Firefox is gray Background color of all the frames in Thunderbird are ...
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Default color scheme for Ubuntu server [duplicate]

This is not so much a question but a request for a change to the defaults. Though it is quite possible my issue is related to something that I'm doing this issue has been around for many years (and ...
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Breeze theme color problem

I recently upgraded Kubuntu to 17.10 Artful using the dark theme, but when I switched to the default breeze theme, this happened( in Plasma 5.11. I used the backports PPA. And no, even in 5.10, the ...
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Laptop screen shows colors tending to gray

I have a Dell Precision 6600, under 16.04LTS. Sometimes I find that colors turn in general to somewhat gray (as it is now, and I cannot get out of this). Then, for some unknown reason, the screen ...
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Changing Ubuntu 17.10 windows snap color

I have installed the Arc-Dark theme and paper icon theme to customize my Ubuntu 17.10 experience. The theme though doesn't change my sign in screen color scheme from the purple/orange to anything, and ...
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Why are my screen colours more vivid using Windows10 than Ubuntu?

I'm duel booting a laptop and as I mentioned in the title, the colours are more vivid and whites more white when I'm booted into Windows vs Ubuntu. Any reason why that would be and what can be done? ...
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Changing default colors of a specific program

I am using Todolist program in console. The dates are in blue color and it is hard to see them. I have seen some ways to change the general settings of the console: Changing the colors of lxterminal ...
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Screen-shot is changing colours

I have tried to take Screen-shot of webpage in Browser by many application available for Ubuntu 16.04. (e.g. kazam, PrtsS key,Alt+PrtSc, Shift+PrtSc,Screeshot). I have also tried Take a Screenshot ...
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Terminator Terminal - Able to vary the background color for each tab, similar to Xfce?

One of my favorite features of the xfce terminal is that it can automatically set a different color for each terminal instance the user creates. This makes it very easy to differentiate between the ...
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Wrong black color on YouTube videos

I have some troubles with black color on YouTube videos. See the screenshots below: on left - screenshot from my android phone, and there are true black color on right - screenshot from my ubuntu ...
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Change the terminal color profile and font size permanently

I'm using xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 and I want to change the color profile and font size using the GUI (Edit > Preferences > Colors/Appearance). However, after making the changes, settings do not persist ...
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Color change in Chrome and Opera after resuming from suspend

I have noticed several times that the color handling on one of my monitors were a bit off from time to time and thought it was the monitor itself, until today. When I "accidentally" dragged a tab out ...
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Gnome-terminal profiles do not show up in gconf-editor in 16.04 LTS

I am trying to change my terminal colors to Zenburn. The normal way to do this is through gconf-editor. However, when I use gconf-editor I don't see any profiles for gnome-terminal! When I go into ...
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"No devices supporting color management detected" for a notebook monitor

this didnt help me: "colormgr get-devices" returns empty list yes, colormgr returns empty list too. the answer there is confuse, I have lightdm, it speaks about reconfiguring gdm that I ...
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how to change the color of current active terminal title bar color when switching between tabs

I am using ubuntu 14.04. I have to open multiple terminal tabs while working. As I open more and more terminal tabs, It is becomes very difficult to identify the current working tab. I like to know ...
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Change geany theme entirely

I know how to change the editor color (view->Change color them...) But I want to change the entire geany window (screenshot) to dark. is this possible?
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Create PDF with 100 pages, only 6 of them in color

I'm trying to upload a book to bookmundo with most of it black text on white paper, just a few pages with color images in between. Being "clever" I used Libreoffice, exported the book as PDF and ...
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Desktop loses color setting (suddenly everything is yellow-ish)

I installed the nvidia drivers on ubuntu 17.10. Now I have the problem that the color settings suddenly change and everything looks yellow-ish. When I use nvidia-settings and 'Reset Hardware Defaults'...
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Restore colors of Terminal to normal on ubuntu 16.04

I tried to increase size of pointer by following the instructions I found on (61) using: sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme My terminal background turned white and I am not sure what ...
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How do I find the default gedit color scheme xml files?

I know how to find new color schemes and alter them slightly to fit my liking. And I can make them slightly similar to the defaults. What I want to do, however, is change one of the defaults slightly....
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Eye strain after using Ubuntu for some time

I upgraded to Ubuntu 17, and my eyes started to get tired very quickly (e.g. in 40 minutes). It seems to be some problem with the OS, since it didn't happen with the older Ubuntu version, and it ...
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