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Artful Aardvark (17.10) upgrade - issue with context menu text background color

After upgrading to Artful Aardvark (17.10), the background of text on windows and menus is rough/jagged and is the desktop color rather than the color of the surrounding dialog. How can I fix this? ...
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Unity terminal in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

I am using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and my terminal looks like this. Is there a way to get that purple background terminal like this?
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How do I get the Redshift functionality of smart adjustment of the color temperature throughout the day in a Wayland session of Ubuntu 17.10?

Redshift is a neat little program allowing you to adjust color temperature of the screen during the day and separately during the night. Is it possible to achieve this with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 17.10? ...
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`watch git log` with correct colors

I want to watch the output of git log --oneline --graph with all the colors and tried to adapt the solution from Why don't git colours appear when using watch?, but it just renders (nearly) the ...
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Evince color problem

I have a problem with color rendering in Evince (3.18.2) in Ubuntu 16.04: the colors are darker than normal since a few days. Below a picture that shows a pdf file rendering in Okular on the left (...
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Strange colours in Ubuntu since October 12, 2017

Yesterday I installed updates as normal and colours became strange. The menus are very dark as are window title bars and text in the terminal is almost unreadable. Everything else seems fine. Here is ...
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Different color in different applications

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04. I needed to do some image editing (changing a background color). Opened up Gimp and changed it. But when opened in a browser, or the image viewer the color is ...
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Colors on my newly installed Ubuntu are pale and dim

Recently I build a new PC configuration and installed a 16.04 LTC on a new HHD. Everything is ok, except the colors that I have now, all of them are very pale and dim. First I kinda accepted that, I ...
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Contrast blacks on Youtube Chrome 61, Ubuntu 17.04

I've been noticed recently on YouTube through Chrome that deep blacks aren't displaying properly. Downloading the video or watching it Firefox shows the appropriate blacks. Any suggestions as what ...
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Colors missing in Terminator but not terminal

My terminator won't show the colors like in my 'regular' terminal. I have written in my .bashrc that user is green, folder structure is blue and git repository is red (the git repository showing I ...
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Why have colors suddenly become dark and saturated in Gtk3 features & applications on my GNOME system?

I've tried to search through the forums to find out why my folder/files icons became darker, why my font is different than how it was before and why many system applications are very saturated in ...
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Suitable color space preset for reducing eye strain in Ubuntu 16.04

I'd like to change my color profile permanently to something that reduces blue light as much as possible to reduce eye strain, but I don't know what each of the preset color profiles in the Color ...
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How to permanently change a specific bash shell color?

The command below is the output of the command sudo service ssh status You can see that this greenish yellow font color is very hard to read, yet it is only applied to very specific cases. How can i ...
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Washed out/over saturated colors on Ubuntu 16.04

I have an Acer Aspire S5-371T Laptop than I recently bought and I have it dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04, however I've noticed something strange with the colors in Ubuntu. I'm not the best ...
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Wrong colors in some applications

Some apps on my Ubuntu 17.04 work with wrong colors (see screenshots). For example: Chrome (left) - bad; Firefox (right) - good. GNOME Image Viewer (left) - bad; ImageMagick (right) - good. ...
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Alternative accessibility software for Ubuntu? (Not Vinux) [duplicate]

I know it exists a distro like Vinux, but if I have to do a course where Ubuntu is used I see myself limited by my sight issues. I find accessibility options quite limited, the high contrast does not ...
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Screen gets a heavy green tint once booted to desktop

I recently changed my monitor from a TV to a projector using an HDMI cable. Now whenever I boot the PC, the colors stay correct during the UEFI screen and the boot splash until it turns green once ...
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ASUS GL753VD-GC003 Backlight Keyboard Colors

I bought an ASUS GL753VD-GC003 and everything works perfectly on Ubuntu 16.04, except some function keys like controlling screen brightness, keyboard backlight brightness, airplane mode, and a few ...
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No borders around buttons in dark themes in Lubuntu

I have a problem with dark themes in Lubuntu 17.04. When I choose widget with dark colors (for example Elementary Dark), than in some applications I don't see borders around buttons, checkboxes and so ...
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Different colors for active/inactive Unity window title bars?

Wow - this seems so difficult to resolve! I've searched and see other people with similar problem/complaint about being able to quickly identify active window, for example, Highlight Window with ...
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What's the RGB values for Ubuntu's default terminal (Unity)?

I'm running Windows Subsystem for Linux and the color in Windows console is bad. I like the color palette in Ubuntu 16.04 very much. I've already known how to change the colors in a Windows console, ...
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HDMI colour issue with Ubuntu - where to start?

I have two PCs using exactly the same hardware. They come with windows preinstalled by the supplier. I've removed windows and installed Ubuntu on one of the devices, and am experiencing two problems: ...
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Dell Inspiron-3543 screen lacking vibrance and saturation - how can I calibrate it?

After switching from windows 7 to ubuntu I notice that my screen lacks vibrance and saturation. I calibrated it to my liking in W7. Since it's a laptop Ubuntu is not giving me the option to calibrate ...
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How do I change the MATE default green colour globally?

I have made some subtle (but I think very effective) tweaks to my stock Ubuntu MATE install. Nothing clever, just installed an icon set, tweaked it by swapping out some status and actions icons from ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 vim colors

I just installed Ubuntu 17.04. After setting up vim I noticed my colors are wrong. Here's what I mean: You can see that system background is showing through the vim background in places where there ...
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xcalib error - unsupported ramp size

I'm trying to change the contrast with xcalib with the command xcalib -co 70 but I get the following error: Error - unsupported ramp size 0
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Screenshot tools capture colors incorrectly

I've taken a screenshot using both Ubuntu's built-in screenshot utility and the Shutter utility, and both of them are getting the colors wrong. I've taken a screenshot of the original and the ...
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How to calibrate screen color in Ubuntu BY EYE (as in, without additional hardware)

My Dell Inspiron 14 7000 laptop has a screen that has a slightly yellow color. In Windows, there is a tool that allows me to manually adjust the color of the display to have less red and green to ...
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Red/green inverted images - green tint

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS alongside Windows 10 and have recently discovered that in certain images red and green are inverted - red appears green and vice versa as shown here: This error doesn't ...
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Change color scheme for inactive list selection in LibreOffice on Kubuntu

To illustrate the problem, I use LibreOffice Writer as an example, although similar thing happens in other LibreOffice applications too. I'm not sure if this problem is isolated to LibreOffice only. ...
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display color issue on MSI dominator laptop display

hi all i have this weird coloring on my MSI dominator laptop as shown below : any idea of what causes this?? which is only seen in ubuntu not windows 10 Nvidia GTX1060 with 381.22 driver.
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Why can I not activate ICC color profiles?

The color profiles in the list (Settings>color) look the same and seem not to get activated. Even the default 'Swapped Red and Green' looks the same, as well as the test profile I created in Windows ...
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Washed out colors with HDMI

Similar questions have been asked before but so far they have not solved this problem. On my laptop (Dell Precision 5510 with hybrid graphics GPUs Intel/Nvidia) with Ubuntu 16.04 the colors are ...
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Change colour of Calendar / System menu in Gnome Desktop

Can anyone point out how I can go about changing the colours of the Shutdown menu and the Time/Calendar dropdowns within the gnome desktop, accessed from the top bar. Not sure what you'd officially ...
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ubuntu 16.04 simple scan on brother j480 has no color

I have a Brother J480 printer/scanner. The scanner is working with simple scan (and the printer is obviously also working). The problem is the scan produces a grey scale image, not a color image. To ...
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Change clementine's colour theme

Clementine's left bar, volume control and the current song's highlighting are all orange, how can I change that? Clementine has appearance settings in the preferences window, setting the colour theme ...
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Customise Bash Terminal Font Colours

A short while ago I asked this question, on how to customise the bash terminal font colours. The question was answered and I got the colours wanting, using the link provided by a helpful user. The ...
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How do I manipulate colors? [duplicate]

In sage, I got a lot of bright blue colors that aren't readable. I want to change them, but I don't know colors' source or from where they are coming. How can I change colors to my liking? Below you ...
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Change Terminal 'user@host' colours - Gnome [duplicate]

I've pretty much got the terminal colour scheme I want, however the user@host colours stick out like a sore thumb, and really don't fit in with the scheme. See screenshot in link: How do I go about ...
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Pidgin GUI uses "dark theme": not usable

Since I installed Gnome pidgin is using a color palette that is not readable. It uses dark text over dark background or light color text over light color background. In Gnome, in general, the "dark ...
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gedit syntax color wont show up

I have some programs I wrote a while ago to edit a journal I've been keeping. I normally don't like to use gedit, I like to keep my vim skills up for my next "gui-less" project. I was editing one of ...
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UnixTree (XTree for Unix Systems) does not appear in color [duplicate]

I am trying to use UnixTree (www.unixtree.org) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via the Ubuntu Terminal. If I run the application "xt" I get the following error: $ xt No term file or database entry found for ...
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Colored borders around windows after update [duplicate]

After some gorgeous updates I witness this:
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How can I remove the color of underlines/strike through style in Libreoffice Writer

In a document like this I have underlined and strike through text. Originally, the document was created by Microsoft word. Currently this text is also colored - either blue or some yellow, depending ...
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Greybird theme (editing): Modify Colors in nautilus file-manager

I am currently using Ubuntu-gnome 16.04 LTS with "Greybird" theme for both, GTK-2 & GTK-3 applications. I really do like the theme, but I would like to modify it with regards to color-behaviour in ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 - install color scheme for ssh client terminal

I have already set force_color_prompt=yes in ~/.bashrc Then I connect to ubuntu server 14.04 with ssh, there is still no color. Why? And what is the right way to set Ubuntu ssh color scheme via ssh ...
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Pink icons and titlebars in Xubuntu 16.04

after the last update I have a serious problem - all icons (both within menus and programs) and titlebars have changed to a bright shade of pink. I have enclosed a screenshot. I've found someone with ...
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Nvidia strange behaviour with hdmi

I've spent half a day trying to figure why with HDMI2.0 cable colors on my monitor were wrong, and then I've played with Color controls in Nvidia X server settings and found out that the correct ...
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gnome-terminal use bright colors for bold

gnome-terminal used to display characters with a color and the bold attribute in a brighter color than characters with the same color but no bold attribute, for a total of 16 possible colors. The ...
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Vim not using 256 color, ncurses-term installed, "xterm-256color: command not found"

First I want to say I am using Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I'm trying to get the solarized colorscheme to work in vim but am running into problems. It works fine in gvim, but I seem to only be getting 8 color ...
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